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Trade vs environment

  • 29/11/2003

Trade vs environment Nine years since the North America Free Trade Agreement (nafta) was created, the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation in the region remain uncertain. It is clear, however, that neither the dire environmental fears predicted nor the direct improvements in environmental performance, stemming from higher income, have generally materialised.

Between 1995 and 1999, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America (cec)

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