论WTO处理环保议题的路径选择

The Path Choice of WTO to Deal with Environmental Issues

WTO处理环保议题主要是通过召开会议、制定协议、创制协调机构以及解决争端等方式,上述路径从整体上构成了世界贸易组织的环境保护实践。"借用"WTO争端解决机制处理环保议题,成为有效协调环境保护与促进贸易自由的现实选择。WTO争端解决机制履行世贸组织环境保护方面的职权,解决与环境有关的贸易争端,其法律解释和裁决报告等不断塑造着世贸组织的环保体系。在缺少完善的环境领域争端解决机制的情况下,"借用"WTO争端解决机制处理环保议题的模式将会长期存在。

WTO deals with environmental issues mainly through the international meetings, formulating agreements, creating coordinating bodies, and solving disputes, the integration of these approaches constitutes the practice of WTO＇s environmental protection. ＂Borrowing＂ WTO dispute settlement mechanism to deal with environmental issues becomes a realistic choice of effectively coordinating the relationship between environment and trade. The WTO dispute settlement mechanism fulfills the competence of WTO to protect the environment, settle the environmentrelated trade disputes, the judicial interpretation and reports of DSB reshape the system of WTO＇s environmental protection. As long as there is no emergence of a operative dispute settlement mechanism in the field of the environment, such approach will continue to be used.