An Asian Perspective on a World Environmental Organisation

Abstract

We analyse the possible response from Asian developing countries (ADC) to the proposal for the formation of an international legal entity called World Environmental Organistion (WEO) designed to facilitate the internalisation of global environmental externalities. We argue that the WEO must recognise the fundamental indivisibility of the economic growthenvironment agenda in these countries. If suitable side payments in the shape of tariff concessions, relaxation of non-tariff barriers and transfers of technology and cash are made and the WEO is seen to be relevant to the environmental problems of ADC, they may well participate in such a venture. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2002.

Financing the Provision of Global Public Goods

“…The first principle can be called 14 For example, a number of authors have proposed the creation of a global environmental organisation (see Lodefalk and Whalley, 2002). Others argue that such organisations will be effective only if issue-linkage is permitted so that developing countries receive other incentives for taking actions to correct the externalities (for example, Jha et al, 2002). 15 For example, the EC's share of contributions by DAC countries to multilateral institutions increased from 16 per cent in 1983-84 to nearly 30 per cent by the late 1990s.…”