Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection Without Protectionism

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Foundations -- 1 Globalization: Investment, Trade and the Environment in an Integrating World Economy -- Trade integration and investment flows in historical perspective -- The institutions governing economic globalization -- GATT, ITO and WTO -- Committee on Trade and the Environment (CTE) -- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) -- Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) -- Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) -- Why are developing countries hostile towards greening the multilateral investment and trade regimes? -- WTO Ministerial Meeting in Seattle and the 'Millennium Round' -- After Seattle: Quo vadis the WTO? -- 2 The Current Multilateral Trade and Investment Regimes -- Trade and the environment -- The agreement establishing the WTO and the GATT -- The preamble -- Article I (Most favoured nation treatment) -- Article III (National treatment) -- Article XI (General elimination of quantitative restrictions) -- Article XX (General exceptions) -- The General Agreement on Trade in Services -- The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) -- The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) -- The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures -- The Agreement on Agriculture -- The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) -- Foreign investment and the environment -- Investment provisions in the NAFTA -- The regulatory regime in BITs and the draft MAI -- The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs Agreement) -- Part Two: Investment -- 3 Pollution Havens: Do Developing Countries Set Inefficient Environmental Standards to Attract Foreign Investment?