Adapting environmental policies to changes in production and trade

Environmental policies should provide the appropriate legal and institutional framework to respond to new needs for environmental protection that may result from changes in production and trade specialization.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Reforming policy
2. Reforming domestic trade policy
3. Developing industrial policy
4. Creating environmentally sound trading practices
5. Assessing impacts of trade policy on biodiversity conservation

1. Applying trade measures to enforce environmental policies

1. Recognizing different situation of developing countries in environment and trade policies
2. Increasing public participation in trade policy-making

1. Ensuring compatibility of environmental and trade law

1. Unproductivity
2. Underproduction
3. Overproduction
4. Changeableness