WTO环境与贸易议题的新进展及中国贡献

New Developments in WTO Environment and Trade Issues and China’s Contribution

传统多边环境谈判难以推进、区域环境规则负面影响不断扩大,对环境规则供给的客观需求引发了WTO推进环境与贸易议题的新探索。近年来,WTO在渔业补贴、塑料贸易、环境可持续性、化石燃料补贴等多个环境议题的具体领域取得积极进展,启动的三项环境保护倡议以开放式诸边谈判形式发起,通过采取软法性质的规制模式和加强环境规则之间的协调与互动得到了众多成员的广泛支持,呈现出WTO在环境与贸易议题上重振谈判功能的新趋势。中国从自身实践经验出发,逐渐充当了这一议题下的主要参与者,为全球环境治理不断贡献中国方案和中国智慧。

The traditional multilateral environmental negotiations are difficult to advance,and the negative impact of regional environmental rules is expanding,the objective demand for the supply of environmental rules has triggered a new exploration of the WTO to promote environmental and trade issues.In recent years,the WTO has made positive progress in a number of specific areas of environmental issues such as fishery subsidies,plastics trade,environmental sustainability,and fossil fuel subsidies,and the three environmental protection initiatives launched in the form of open plurilateral negotiations have been widely supported by many members by adopting a soft law regulatory model and strengthening the coordination and interaction between environmental rules,showing a new trend of the WTO reinvigorating its negotiation function on environmental and trade issues.Based on its own practical experience,China has gradually become a major player in this issue,and has continuously contributed Chinese solutions and wisdom to global environmental governance.