Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/119676
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 68.2002
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
International trade negotiations have recently tackled the issue of possible free trade restrictions, justified - among others - on the basis of environmental concerns. Also, some analyses of international environmental agreements (especially in the field of climate change) have highlighted the key role played by changes in the terms of trade in determining the cost of environmental policies. Yet, secondary effects of international trade remain disregarded in many environmental policies, whereas the introduction of environmental trade barriers has been resisted, arguing that this may hide a Trojan horse of a renewed protectionism. This paper reviews the debate on trade and the environment in the two fields of environmental and trade negotiations, highlighting the different and somewhat conflicting approach adopted in the two cases. A numerical general equilibrium model is used to illustrate how different
Subjects: 
Trade policy
environmental policy
climate change
general equilibrium models
JEL: 
F18
C68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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