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Wanted! Free Trade Agreements in the Service of Environmental and Climate Protection
Client/Funding Institution
Austrian Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
Abstract
The effects of international trade and investment on the planet’s climate and environment are manifold and complex. This makes the assessment of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that the EU has been concluding in great numbers since the stalemate in WTO negotiations a delicate issue. The project aims at informing the discussion on the appropriate design of FTAs to make them serve environmental and climate protection: It is going to (i) provide an overview of the prevalence and development of sustainability chapters in EU FTAs and experiences with these provisions, (ii) highlight specific environmental issues related to EU FTAs that arose repeatedly in different agreements and (iii) zoom into the EU-Mercosur FTA and will contrast the expected cost of increased CO2 emissions with the expected ‘gains from trade’.
Duration
October 2019 - March 2020
wiiw team Leader
Julia Grübler
wiiw Staff
Project Partners
Prof. Gabriele Tondl, Europainstitut an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
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Research Areas: International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI