Towards Greening Trade? Environmental Provisions in Emerging Markets’ Preferential Trade Agreements

Berger, Axel; Blümer, Dominique; Brandi, Clara; Chi, Manjiao

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-3473-7_4

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“…In theory, environmental provisions in trade agreements can oblige parties to uphold environmental law and implement "Multilateral Environmental Agreements"; increase cooperation, transparency, and participation in environmental matters; and trigger the uptake of voluntary sustainability standards and public regulations targeted at sustainability issues of a specific sector or product. However, empirical evidence of the actual environmental effects of environmental provisions in trade agreements is scarce and inconclusive (Berger et al 2020).…”

Section: Social and Environmental Provisions In Trade Agreementsmentioning

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“…Trade agreements can suffer from resolution mismatches. For example, Berger et al (2020) reviewed 48 preferential trade agreements of five emerging economies and found that threequarters of the agreements make reference to general environmental goals in their preamble or other chapters. However, these provisions are not of substantive nature, meaning that they do not imply any substantive rights or obligations in environmental matters to the parties.…”

Section: Social and Environmental Provisions In Trade Agreementsmentioning

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Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows

Coenen¹,

Sonderegger²,

Newig³

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Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social problems generated in such telecoupled systems. We focus on the spatial dimension of governance fit in relation to global commodity flows and telecoupled systems. Specifically, we draw on examples from land use and global agricultural commodity governance to examine two overarching types of governance mismatches: boundary mismatches and resolution mismatches. We argue that one way to address mismatches is through governance rescaling and illustrate this approach with reference to examples of three broad types of governance approaches: trade agreements, due diligence laws, and landscape approaches to supply chain governance. No single governance approach is likely to address all mismatches, highlighting the need to align multiple governance approaches to govern telecoupled systems effectively.

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Section: Social and Environmental Provisions In Trade Agreementsmentioning

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Section: Social and Environmental Provisions In Trade Agreementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows

Coenen¹,

Sonderegger²,

Newig³

et al. 2023

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Greener Transport for North America

Pak

Abramov

2022

Industry 4.0

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Trade and the Environment

Brandi,

Morin

2023

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The mushrooming of trade agreements and their interlinkages with environmental governance calls for new research on the trade and environment interface. The more than 700 existing preferential trade agreements (PTAs) include ever more diverse and far-reaching environmental provisions. While missed opportunities remain and harmful provisions persist, numerous environmental provisions in PTAs entail promising potential. They promote the implementation of environmental treaties and cover numerous environmental issues. New concepts, data, and methods, including detailed content analysis across multiple institutions, are needed to explain these interlinkages and understand whether and how PTAs with environmental provisions can contribute to tackling global environmental challenges. Making use of the most extensive coding of environmental provisions in PTAs to date and combining quantitative data with qualitative analyses, this Element provides a comprehensive yet fine-grained picture of the drivers and effects of environmental provisions in PTAs. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Towards Greening Trade? Environmental Provisions in Emerging Markets’ Preferential Trade Agreements

Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows

Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows

Greener Transport for North America

Trade and the Environment

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