贸易与环境问题的多边及区域协调

Multilateral and Regional Harmonization on Trade and the Environment

近年来,贸易与环境问题日益引起人们的重视。作者对世界贸易组织及区域经济组织协调贸易与环境问题的机制进行了比较分析,认为从协调能力、协调措施及处理与贸易和环境有关的南北关系问题等方面来看,当前区域经济组织要比世界贸易组织更具有优势,从而提出现阶段区域经济组织比世界贸易组织能更有效地协调贸易与环境问题,而且二者具有兼容性。

Recently, the issue of trade and the environment has aroused great concern. By making a comparative analysis of the WTO mechanisms and regional economic organizations with respect to harmonizing trade and the environment, the author suggests that current regional economic organizations have more advantages than the WTO in terms of their abilities and measures to harmonize dealings with South-North related issues. The author concludes that regional economic organizations are more effective than the WTO at the present stage in harmonizing trade and the environment, and that the two are actually compatible with one another.