NAFTA and Climate Change
Author :
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0881326097
Author :
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0881326097
Author : Jeffrey J. Schott
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN :
Author : Hoi Kong
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781316364789
This book assesses the current state of environmental protection under NAFTA, twenty years after ratification.
Author : Jeffrey J. Schott
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN :
Author : Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881322996
Air and water pollution blighted northern Mexican cities long before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a glimmer on the political horizon. Not surprisingly, when NAFTA became a political reality, environmentalists argued that commercial competition would weaken environmental standards in Canada and the United States and industrial growth in Mexico would further damage its weak environmental infrastructure. NAFTA's huge success in expanding free trade has concentrated population and environmental abuse at the US-Mexico border where it is most visible to Americans. Many environmental groups blame NAFTA and, drawing on its experience, now oppose new trade initiatives.Does the NAFTA record on the environment since 1994 justify its criticism? In this seven-year analysis, the authors review NAFTA's environmental provisions, including a side accord--the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the situation at the US-Mexican border, and the trends in North American environmental policy. They emphasize that the environmental problems of North America were not the result of NAFTA and the NAAEC was not devised to address all of them. The authors recommend ways to better NAFTA's environmental dimension in all three countries, and improve living conditions where economic growth is greatest--at the US-Mexican border. It makes more sense to tackle the shortcomings than to lament NAFTA and the economic growth it promotes.
Author : Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN :
This study of the environmental potential and performance of the institutions created by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents a contribution to a project that will design a framework to permit the ongoing monitoring of the environmental changes occurring throughout North America in the wake of NAFTA and the side agreements negotiated in conjunction with it. The study examines the way NAFTA's economic institutions have moved to fulfil their responsibilities and potential for environmental enhancement specified in the NAFTA text and have acted synergistically with NAFTA's environmental institutions. Specifically, it identifies and assesses their achievements during their first three years and evaluates how they might be built upon in the future. Institutions examined include the Free Trade Commission, the Transportation Consultative Group, the Health Group, and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Appendices include a list of NAFTA's intergovernmental bodies and working groups.
Author : Bradly J. Condon
Publisher :
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199654557
Climate change represents an unprecedented challenge, the effects of which require an urgent and effective international response. This book analyses its effect on both developing and developed countries from an economic, financial, and legal perspective, assessing its interaction with international economic law.
Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847205278
The difficulty of achieving and implementing a global climate change agreement has stimulated a wide range of policy proposals designed to favour the participation of a large number of countries in a global cooperative effort to control greenhouse gas emissions. This significant book analyses the viability of controlling climate change through a set of regional or sub-global climate agreements rather than via a global treaty. The authors argue that the principal challenge in devising a truly global architecture is in providing sufficient incentives for all party participation whilst also ensuring compliance, which raises global governance issues. The main purpose of this study is not to trace in detail the process of negotiation and implementation of international regimes, but rather to evaluate whether a series of regional or sub-global agreements is more likely to achieve climate change control than a global agreement attempted from the outset. From a political science perspective, the focus centres on institution building and governance. From an economic perspective it concentrates on incentives used to encourage participation in a global and non-fragmented agreement. Lessons from EU integration and actual global and regional trade agreements are employed in order to analyse the future prospects of climate change negotiations. The focus on climate change and more generally the management of environmental and resource problems will make this book essential reading for participants, observers and analysts of the public policy process as it concerns climate change and more generally the management of environmental and resource problems. In addition the rich combination of international relations theory and economic literature with findings from the policy process will appeal to both general readers and the academic community.
Author : I. Hussain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230110002
Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives? Investigating a number of roadblocks and utilizing James Rosenau's state-multi-centric models, the book's conclusions shed light not just on why North American integration is not working, but on broader regional experiments.
Author : John J. Kirton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351745360
This title was first published in 2002: Focusing on the central issues of the contemporary trade-environment-social cohesion debate, this compelling book analyzes the social and environmental impacts of existing trade liberalization through the World Trade Organization (WTO), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other key regimes. It also explores new strategies for regulation and risk assessment, environmental information, standard setting, voluntary activities, sustainability assessments of trade agreements, and participation by civil society. Features include: -suggests ways in which the NAFTA model might be improved -explores the NAFTA regime with regards to its environmental and social impacts -evaluates the experience and improvement of NAFTA and how it might assist the broader international community Characterized by its meticulous scholarship and fluid style, this authoritative work is an indispensable guide for all those concerned with trade liberalization, environmental enhancement and social cohesion.