The Limits of Addressing Sustainable Development in the WTO Regime

M. C. Segger
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This chapter briefly discusses the observation that sustainable development is now firmly embedded in the World Trade Organization (WTO) legal regime, as an objective, but the implication for this commitment remains contested as WTO members have differing views on sustainable development. Beyond the recognition of the interpretive value as part of the ‘object and purpose’ of the WTO Agreements, there has been little progress to date at the global level in finding and agreeing on specific mechanisms by which integration of environmental and social development priorities might be secured at the WTO. There is also very little space for actual cooperation on trade-related aspects of environmental or development law and policy, addressing the second tension detailed in Sections 1 and 2, and there is as yet very little progress in enhancing trade in more sustainable goods and services, though Doha negotiations continue. The chapter also discusses how it is not yet clear, in the WTO, what specific provisions and measures could be enacted to use trade to actually support sustainable development, or what additional cooperation might be undertaken by the WTO on trade-related environmental concerns, or on trade-related social issues.
WTO体制下解决可持续发展问题的局限性
本章简要讨论了以下观点,即可持续发展现在已作为一项目标牢固地嵌入世界贸易组织(WTO)的法律制度中,但由于WTO成员对可持续发展有不同的看法,因此对这一承诺的含义仍然存在争议。除了承认作为世贸组织协定“目标和宗旨”的一部分的解释价值之外,迄今为止,在全球一级寻找和商定可以在世贸组织确保环境和社会发展优先事项一体化的具体机制方面,几乎没有取得任何进展。在与贸易有关的环境或发展法律和政策方面进行实际合作的空间也很小,解决第1节和第2节详述的第二种紧张关系,尽管多哈谈判仍在继续,但在加强更可持续的商品和服务贸易方面进展甚微。本章还讨论了世贸组织如何尚不清楚可以制定哪些具体规定和措施来利用贸易实际支持可持续发展,或者世贸组织可以就与贸易有关的环境问题或与贸易有关的社会问题进行哪些额外的合作。
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