Trade and Environment in the World Trade Organization

Environmentally motivated unilateral trade measures
have been at the center of attention in the World
Trade Organization s dispute settlement apparatus and
in other organs of the multilateral trading system.
The controversy around these measures concerns, first
and foremost, their legality under the WTO rules. The
book addresses the question whether environmentally
motivated unilateral trade measures are allowed in
the WTO. It argues that these measures are allowed in
the system only as a last resort and only if their
application runs congruent to the values and
objectives recognized by the system. It suggests a
technique by which the scope of legality of
environmentally motivated unilateral trade measures
may be clarified. It is hoped that the discussion
and proposition in this book will contribute to the
discourse on the clarification of the status of
environmentally motivated unilateral trade measures
in the WTO.

Autorentext

Teshager Worku Dagne is currently a doctoral student in theFaculty of Law at the University of Dalhousie. He graduated withLL.B degree at the Addis Ababa University, and completed his LL.Mstudies at the University of Calgary.

Klappentext

Environmentally motivated unilateral trade measureshave been at the center of attention in the WorldTrade Organization's dispute settlement apparatus andin other organs of the multilateral trading system. The controversy around these measures concerns, firstand foremost, their legality under the WTO rules. Thebook addresses the question whether environmentallymotivated unilateral trade measures are allowed inthe WTO. It argues that these measures are allowed inthe system only as a last resort and only if theirapplication runs congruent to the values andobjectives recognized by the system. It suggests atechnique by which the scope of legality ofenvironmentally motivated unilateral trade measuresmay be clarified. It is hoped that the discussionand proposition in this book will contribute to thediscourse on the clarification of the status ofenvironmentally motivated unilateral trade measuresin the WTO.