ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the links between environmental conservation on the one hand and trade, finance and intellectual property on the other. It highlights some of the provisions and instruments which are particularly relevant from the point of view of the trade-environment interface. The chapter includes some provisions of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that are often invoked in dispute settlement proceedings involving environmental issues. It also includes the 1994 Decision on Trade and Environment which provides the basis for the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Trade and Environment. The chapter reproduces part of the regional 1993 North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the main instrument concerning environmental finance, and the 1994 instrument establishing the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It focuses on intellectual property because the implementation of intellectual property laws has direct and indirect impacts on environmental management.
