Environmental Services

The Liberalization of Trade in Environmental Goods and Services in the ESCWA and Arab Regions, October 2007
By ESCWA.

Restoring Nature's Capital: An Action Agenda to Sustain Ecosystem Services, 2007.
By the World Resources Institute.

Technology Transfer Issues in Environmental Goods and Services: An Illustrative Analysis of Sectors Relevant to Air-pollution and Renewable Energy, April 2007.
By Lynn Mytelka, ICTSD.

Building Supply Capacity for Environmental Services in Asia, April 2007.
By Aparna Sawhney, ICTSD.

Trade In Environmental Services: Assessing The Implications for Developing Countries in the GATS, September 2006.
By Colin Kirkpatrick, ICTSD.

Valuing Ecosystem Services, 2006.
By Edward Barbier and Geoffrey Heal in The Economists' Voice 3:3, 2006.

Una Aproximación A Las Negociaciones Comerciales En Servicios Ambientales, Julio 2006
By Alan Fairlie Reinoso

Defining Environmental Goods and Services and their Trade and Sustainable Development Implications: a Case Study of Mexico, by Enrique Lendo, October 2005.
Executive Summary - Full Study - Annexes.
Commissioned by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

A Primer on Environmental Goods and Services: Definitional Challenges to the Negotiation of Further Liberalisation, n.d.
By Beatrice Chaytor; Study commissioned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), UK.

Environmental Services of General Interest in the WTO: no love at first sight, 2004.
By Markus Krajewski, Journal of European Environmental and Planning Law.

Environmental goods and services: Defining negotiations or negotiating definitions?, 2004.
By Alexey Vikhlyaev; UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2003.

Environmental goods and services: Challenges and opportunities for Central American and Caribbean countries, 2004.
By Luis Barriaa, Catherin Cattafestab, Raul Garridoc, Maria Pia Hernandezd, and René Vossenaare; UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2003.

Regional workshop on Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) and Market Access, 2004
Organised by UNCTAD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 12 May 2004.

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Proposed WTO Negotiations: Environmental Services (with particular reference to water and waste management), 2003.
By R. Bisset et al.; The University of Manchester and the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).

WTO Negotiations on environmental goods and services: maximising opportunities?, 2003.
By Monica Araya; Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS), Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy.

Energy and Environmental Services: Negotiating Objectives and Development Priorities, 2003.
By UNCTAD; UNCTAD/DITC/TNCD/2003/3.

Environmental Goods and Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Central American and Caribbean Countries, 2003.
By UNCTAD, Interim Report for sub-regional Workshop on Trade and Environment Issues contained in Paragraphs 31 and 32 of the WTO Doha Ministerial Declaration, Bangkok 30 July-1August 2003. (UNCTAD/FIELD Project)

Managing Request-Offer Negotiations under the GATS: The Case of Insurance Services, 2003. OECD in partnership with UNCTAD. Prepared by Jun Kazeki.

Liberalisation of International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services, 2003.
By the UNCTAD-FIELD project, Background paper for sub-regional Workshop on Trade and Environment Issues contained in Paragraphs 31 and 32 of the WTO Doha Ministerial Declaration, Bangkok 30 July - 1 August 2003.

Expert Meeting on Definitions and Dimensions of Environmental Goods and Services in Trade and Development, 2003.
Organised by UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland, 9-11 July 2003. (Agenda and Official documents).

National workshop on Environmental Goods and Services, 2003.
Organised as part of the UNCTAD-FIELD project; Panama City, Panama, 26-27 June 2003.

Asia Pacific Regional Initiative on Trade, Economic Governance, and Human Development. Trade in Environmental Services and Human Development. Country case study -- Pakistan, June 2003
By Syed Ayub Qutub, Pakistan Institute for Environment-Development Action Research, Islamabad.

Seminar on trade liberalization in environmental goods and services, 2003.
Organised by the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), New Delhi, 16 May 2003.

Taller Nacional sobre Bienes y Servicios Ambientales, 2003.
Organised as part of the UNCTAD-FIELD project; Managua, Nicaragua, 23-24 June 2003.

Taller Regional de Expertos sobre Bienes y Servicios Ambientales, 2003.
Organised as part of the UNCTAD-FIELD project; Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, 24-25 March 2003.

Trade in Environmental Services: Opportunities and Constraints, 2003.
By Arpana Sawhney and Rupa Chanda; Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

Valuation Of Environmental Goods And Services: An Institutionalistic Assessment, 2003.
By S.K. Mishra; Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, India.

Negotiating Further Liberalization of Environmental Goods and Services: An Exploration of the Terms of Art, 2002.
By Beatrice Chaytor; Blackwell Publishing.

Silver bullet or fools' gold? A global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor, 2002.
By Natasha Landell-Mills and Ina T. Porras; IIED.

Bienes y Servicios Ambientales: Insumos para la discusion desde la perspectiva latinoamericana - resumen ejecutivo, 2002.
By Nicola Borregaard; Annie Duffey Zulma Guzman with R. Melendez-Ortiz and M. Lopez, RIDES and Fundacion Futuro LatinoAmericano.

Environmental Goods and Services: The Benefits of Further Global Trade Liberalisation, 2001.
By the OECD.

Environmental Services and Developing Countries, 2001.
By Alice Palmer, presented at the FIELD/UNCTAD Regional Workshop on "Strengthening Research and Policy-Making Capacity on Trade and Environment in Developing Countries", Dar-es-Salaam, 4-6 April 2001.

Trade in Fishing Services, 2001
By S. Cunningham and D. Whitmarsh, commissioned by the OECD.

Strategies for Trade Liberalization in Environmental Services in China, 2000.
By Cao Fenzhong and Shen Xiaoyue, Policy Research Centre for Environment and Economy, the State Environmental Protection
Administration, China.

Strengthening Capacities in Developing Countries to Develop their Environmental Services Sector, 1998
By the UNCTAD Secretariat.

Assessing Latin American Markets for North American Environmental Goods and Services, by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Prospectus Inc, Ottwa, 1996.

The Global environmental Goods and Services Industry, OECD, 1995