book chapter
Harmonization of sustainability standards under the WTO framework as the core to create an intersection of trade and environment mutually supportive
The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective | 2021 | Pages: 9
Publisher(s): Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)international food policy research institute (ifpri)
Open Access | CC BY-SA-3.0-IGO
Citation
Papendieck, Sabine; and Elverdin, Pablo. 2021. Harmonization of sustainability standards under the WTO framework as the core to create an intersection of trade and environment mutually supportive. In The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective, eds. Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos, and Martín Piñeiro. Other topics relevant for Agriculture and the WTO, Pp. 121-129. San Jose, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134840
In the context of climate change the world faces growing environmental pressures described as planetary boundaries including air and water pollution, land degradation, natural resources depletion and extinctions of species among other environmental issues and, in particular, more frequently extreme weather-related events and natural disasters affecting negatively the human development.