Greening regional trade agreements on investment
Many governments are increasingly recognising the need to ensure that trade and investment
agreements reflect environmental concerns to help achieve overarching environmental
goals and to increase their public acceptability. In particular, investment liberalisation
and protection, as well as environmental sustainability are essential elements to
consider in these agreements to foster economic integration and require coherent policy
approaches.
In this context, this report investigates possible approaches that can help ensure
policy coherence between investment and environment related provisions in regional
trade agreements (RTAs). As investment related articles appear not only in RTAs but
more broadly in bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and in other international investment
agreements (IIAs), the work extends to trade and investment agreements that encompass
RTAs, BITs and other IIAs. The report highlights available practices to ensure that
investment related provisions reaffirm the domestic environmental policy space.
Published on October 26, 2020
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