Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs)

Links to relevant MEAs are available in the International Legal Instruments section.

The Doha Round and Beyond: Towards a lasting relationship between the WTO and the international environmental regime, 2007.
By Alice Palmer and Richard Tarasofsky.

Enabling a positive relationship between WTO rules and multilateral environmental agreements - moving beyond the Doha Development Agenda, 2007.
By the Chatham House and the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD).

The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse And Abuse To Africa, 2005.
By the Basel Action Network (BAN).

Is The WTO Is The Only Way? Safeguarding Multilateral Environmental Agreements From International Trade Rules And Settling Trade And Environment Disputes Outside The WTO, 2005.
By Adelphi Consult, Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace.

Measuring Policy Coherence Among the MEAS. 2005.
By Anantha Kumar Duraiappah and Asmita Bhardwaj, International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Accomodating MEAs in Trade Agreements, 2004.
By Kevin Gray, published by IDDRI.

Specific trade obligations in multilateral environmental agreements and their relationship with the rules of the multilateral trading system - A developing country perspective, 2004.
By Ulrich Hoffmann, UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2003.

Multilateral Environment Agreements and the WTO, 2003.
By Duncan Brack and Kevin Gray, RIIA and IISD.

Expanding the MEA Mandate in the Doha Agenda, 2003.
By Steve Charnovitz (GETS), in "Achieving Harmony in Trade and Environment", Global Environment and Trade Study.

WTO/GATT and MEAs: The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond, 2003
By Shinya Murase, Sophia University Faculty of Law, in "Achieving Harmony in Trade and Environment", Global Environment and Trade Study.

Doha Round Briefing on Trade and Environment Negotiations, August 2003.
By the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Equitably Sharing Benefits from the Utilization of Natural Genetic Resources: The Brazilian Interpretation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2002.
By J. Peña-Neira, C. Dieperink and H. Addink, in the Electronic Journal of Comparative Law 6(3).

International Conservation Treaties, Poverty and Development: The Case of CITES, 2002.
By Barnabas Dickson, in Natural Resource Perspectives (74,1).

Who Should Make the Rules of Trade? -- The Complex Issue of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, 2002.
By William A. Kerr in The Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy.

CITES and the CBD: Tensions and Synergies, 2001.
By Rosie Cooney, in Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) (10, 3): 259-267.

Demystifying The Relationship Between CITES And The WTO, 2001.
By Marceil Yeater Juan Vasquez, in Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) (10, 3): 271-276.

Achieving Objectives of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: a Package of Trade Measures and Positive Measures, 2001.
Edited by Jeena Vha and Ulrich Hoffmann (UNCTAD)

Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements, 1999.
By the OECD.

The Kyoto Protocol and the WTO, Seminar Note (n.d.), by Aaron Cosbey, RIIA and IISD.