The Geneva-based Conventions on Chemicals and Wastes
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Author(s)Prof Anne Petitpierre , University of Geneva (Unige) . |
Research Project
Technology Transfer, Trade, and the Environment: Promoting Synergy for Sustainable Development among the World Trade Organisation and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
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Geneva-based Conventions on chemicals and wastesAbstract
The Geneva-based Conventions on chemicals and wastes show evidence of the difficult balance between different legal approaches concerning environmental goods and services, promotion of trade and protection of the environment (including health, both human and animal), long term and short term approaches, technical measures and respect of legal as well as ethical requirements. The key word to reconcile the different approaches underlying different conventions is mutual supportiveness of international agreements. Applying this concept consistently is the only answer to the complexity of the relation between international commitments often based on similar basic philosophies (such as sustainable development, a goal common to the WTO and multilateral environmental agreements), but with substantially different interests at stake.
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The Geneva-based Conventions on Chemicals and Wastes
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