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No. 2005/02 | 25 Aug 2005 |
Achieving the Successful Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies
This report examines factors that have proven helpful in achieving the successful transfer of environmentally sound technologies (EST) to developing countries. It provides an overview of the main issues lying behind trade-related aspects of EST... |
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No. 2018/01 | 28 Mar 2018 |
Assessing Implementation of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
This report assesses the progress of the implementation of environmental provisions in RTAs. It focuses on the extent to which governments have complied with the environmental commitments made in the trade agreements to which they are a Party. The... |
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No. 2018/02 | 12 Sept 2018 |
Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and analysis.... |
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No. 2013/06 | 31 Oct 2013 |
Border Carbon Adjustment and International Trade
An important source of political opposition to measures aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) arises from concerns over their negative effects on the competitiveness of domestic firms, especially those that are energy-intensive and... |
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No. 2006/03 | 10 May 2006 |
Building Capacity to Monitor Water Quality
One of the key challenges to ensuring adequate supplies of fresh water and sanitary wastewater systems is to build the capacity of various stakeholders to manage and deliver water and sanitation services. One element of such capacity building is... |
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No. 2008/02 | 23 Sept 2008 |
Checklist for Negotiators of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
This document provides a checklist on environmental issues for negotiators of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in order to provide guidance to countries wishing to include environmental provisions in RTAs. The checklist draws on countries’ experience... |
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No. 2017/03 | 31 May 2017 |
Climate change and trade policy interaction
This report investigates the implications of regionalism for the interaction between trade and climate policy. It examines the implications of regional climate governance for international trade and conversely the implications of regional trade... |
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No. 2013/02 | 08 Apr 2013 |
Cross-Border Trade in Electricity and the Development of Renewables-Based Electric Power
The uptake of renewable energy (RE) has been identified by a number of governments as a primary means for mitigating CO2 emissions from the electricity sector, and for making the transition to a low-carbon economy. The electric power output of some... |
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No. 2014/01 | 25 Jul 2014 |
Developments in Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment
This report provides an update on recent developments in the field of Regional Trade Agreements and the environment. Issues arising in the implementation of RTAs with environmental considerations are examined as well as experience in assessing their... |
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No. 2013/04 | 04 Jul 2013 |
Developments in Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment
This report provides an update on recent developments in the field of Regional Trade Agreements and the environment. Issues arising in the implementation of RTAs with environmental considerations are examined as well as experience in assessing their... |
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No. 2013/01 | 27 Jun 2013 |
Domestic Incentive Measures for Renewable Energy With Possible Trade Implications
In recent years the manufacturing of renewable-energy technologies has become truly global. The associated rise in international investment and trade in goods and services related to renewable energy has been rapid, but it has not always been smooth.... |
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No. 2009/01 | 24 Mar 2009 |
Environment and Regional Trade Agreements
This document provides a second update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and environment covering the period late 2007 to December 2008. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements”, and the... |
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No. 2014/02 | 25 Jul 2014 |
Environment and Regional Trade Agreements
This report examines trends in the use of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements and identifies factors which may explain the presence or absence of these provisions. The report builds on work of the OECD Joint Working Party on Trade... |
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No. 2010/01 | 29 Apr 2010 |
Environment and Regional Trade Agreements
This document is a third update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and environment covering the period late 2008 to December 2009. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements” prepared under... |
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No. 2005/04 | 29 Nov 2005 |
Environmental Goods
This paper compares two lists of environmental goods that have been used in the WTO negotiations on liberalising trade in environmental goods and services. It describes the genesis of the lists, which were compiled in the late 1990s. The OECD list... |
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No. 2005/03 | 29 Nov 2005 |
Environmental Goods and Services
This study presents a synthesis of 17 country studies on environmental goods and services (EG&S) commissioned by the OECD, UNCTAD and the UNDP. The countries examined are Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic,... |
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No. 2009/02 | 04 May 2009 |
Facilitating Trade in Selected Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Energy Supply, Buildings, and Industry Sectors
It is in every country's interest that the deployment of carbon-change-mitigation technologies (CCMTs) be accomplished at the lowest possible cost to society and that their diffusion be rapid. Reducing barriers to trade is one way to accomplish that,... |
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No. 2020/01 | 07 Jan 2020 |
Greening regional trade agreements
Many regional trade agreements (RTAs) contain chapters and articles that are environmentally specific. However, Parties can elect to more broadly incorporate environmental objectives in their RTAs to address their environmental concerns in such... |
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No. 2020/03 | 26 Oct 2020 |
Greening regional trade agreements on investment
Many governments are increasingly recognising the need to ensure that trade and investment agreements reflect environmental concerns to help achieve overarching environmental goals and to increase their public acceptability. In particular, investment... |
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No. 2020/04 | 22 Dec 2020 |
Greening regional trade agreements on non-tariff measures through technical barriers to trade and regulatory co-operation
This report explores how regional trade agreements (RTAs) can serve as a vehicle to reflect environmental objectives in chapters and articles dealing with technical barriers to trade and regulatory co-operation. |
OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers
English
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Achieving the Successful Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies
Cristina Tébar Less and Steven McMillan
25 Aug 2005
This report examines factors that have proven helpful in achieving the successful transfer of environmentally sound technologies (EST) to developing countries. It provides an overview of the main issues lying behind trade-related aspects of EST...
Assessing Implementation of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
Clive George and Shunta Yamaguchi
28 Mar 2018
This report assesses the progress of the implementation of environmental provisions in RTAs. It focuses on the extent to which governments have complied with the environmental commitments made in the trade agreements to which they are a Party. The...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
12 Sept 2018
This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and analysis....
Border Carbon Adjustment and International Trade
Madison Condon and Ada Ignaciuk
31 Oct 2013
An important source of political opposition to measures aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) arises from concerns over their negative effects on the competitiveness of domestic firms, especially those that are energy-intensive and...
Building Capacity to Monitor Water Quality
Jim Hight and Grant Ferrier
10 May 2006
One of the key challenges to ensuring adequate supplies of fresh water and sanitary wastewater systems is to build the capacity of various stakeholders to manage and deliver water and sanitation services. One element of such capacity building is...
Checklist for Negotiators of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
Cristina Tébar Less and Joy A. Kim
23 Sept 2008
This document provides a checklist on environmental issues for negotiators of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in order to provide guidance to countries wishing to include environmental provisions in RTAs. The checklist draws on countries’ experience...
Climate change and trade policy interaction
Harro van Asselt
31 May 2017
This report investigates the implications of regionalism for the interaction between trade and climate policy. It examines the implications of regional climate governance for international trade and conversely the implications of regional trade...
Cross-Border Trade in Electricity and the Development of Renewables-Based Electric Power
Heymi Bahar and Jehan Sauvage
08 Apr 2013
The uptake of renewable energy (RE) has been identified by a number of governments as a primary means for mitigating CO2 emissions from the electricity sector, and for making the transition to a low-carbon economy. The electric power output of some...
Developments in Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment
Clive George
25 Jul 2014
This report provides an update on recent developments in the field of Regional Trade Agreements and the environment. Issues arising in the implementation of RTAs with environmental considerations are examined as well as experience in assessing their...
Developments in Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment
Clive George
04 Jul 2013
This report provides an update on recent developments in the field of Regional Trade Agreements and the environment. Issues arising in the implementation of RTAs with environmental considerations are examined as well as experience in assessing their...
Domestic Incentive Measures for Renewable Energy With Possible Trade Implications
Heymi Bahar, Jagoda Egeland and Ronald Steenblik
27 Jun 2013
In recent years the manufacturing of renewable-energy technologies has become truly global. The associated rise in international investment and trade in goods and services related to renewable energy has been rapid, but it has not always been smooth....
Environment and Regional Trade Agreements
Simone Gigli
24 Mar 2009
This document provides a second update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and environment covering the period late 2007 to December 2008. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements”, and the...
Environment and Regional Trade Agreements
Clive George
25 Jul 2014
This report examines trends in the use of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements and identifies factors which may explain the presence or absence of these provisions. The report builds on work of the OECD Joint Working Party on Trade...
Environment and Regional Trade Agreements
Peter Gallagher and Ysé Serret
29 Apr 2010
This document is a third update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and environment covering the period late 2008 to December 2009. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements” prepared under...
Environmental Goods
Ronald Steenblik
29 Nov 2005
This paper compares two lists of environmental goods that have been used in the WTO negotiations on liberalising trade in environmental goods and services. It describes the genesis of the lists, which were compiled in the late 1990s. The OECD list...
Environmental Goods and Services
Maxime Kennett and Ronald Steenblik
29 Nov 2005
This study presents a synthesis of 17 country studies on environmental goods and services (EG&S) commissioned by the OECD, UNCTAD and the UNDP. The countries examined are Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic,...
Facilitating Trade in Selected Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Energy Supply, Buildings, and Industry Sectors
Ronald Steenblik and Joy A. Kim
04 May 2009
It is in every country's interest that the deployment of carbon-change-mitigation technologies (CCMTs) be accomplished at the lowest possible cost to society and that their diffusion be rapid. Reducing barriers to trade is one way to accomplish that,...
Greening regional trade agreements
Shunta Yamaguchi
07 Jan 2020
Many regional trade agreements (RTAs) contain chapters and articles that are environmentally specific. However, Parties can elect to more broadly incorporate environmental objectives in their RTAs to address their environmental concerns in such...
Greening regional trade agreements on investment
Shunta Yamaguchi
26 Oct 2020
Many governments are increasingly recognising the need to ensure that trade and investment agreements reflect environmental concerns to help achieve overarching environmental goals and to increase their public acceptability. In particular, investment...
Greening regional trade agreements on non-tariff measures through technical barriers to trade and regulatory co-operation
Christophe Bellmann and Colette van der Ven
22 Dec 2020
This report explores how regional trade agreements (RTAs) can serve as a vehicle to reflect environmental objectives in chapters and articles dealing with technical barriers to trade and regulatory co-operation.