Trade and the Environment within the WTO: Accountability of an International Trade Organization: Tradeoffs and Contraints

该项目的重点是，国际贸易谈判者和管理者在就影响到环境退化等其他社会政治问题的贸易问题作出决定时，如何考虑到利益集团的意见。 具体来说，这项研究是分析的权衡，限制，并允许增加私人当事人进入主要的国际贸易机构，世界贸易组织（WTO）的潜在病理。 这项研究使“利益攸关方”治理模式超越了目前的描述状态，分析的基础是世贸组织考虑贸易和环境问题的方式，以评估权衡、限制和潜在的病态（例如，有利于某些私人利益，损害他人利益）。 收集数据的主要方法是与世贸组织秘书处的主要成员、代表不同发展水平和地理位置的国家政府的世贸组织代表、政府间组织代表以及非营利组织和商业组织代表进行访谈。 此外，正在分析与世贸组织贸易与环境委员会有关的所有公开文件。该项目的成果将使学者、决策者和公民更好地了解世贸组织如何接收和处理来自第三方的信息，以及如何将信息分发给与其决定有利害关系的行为者。 本项目关注的是，在对环境恶化等其他社会政治问题产生影响的贸易问题做出决定的国际贸易谈判者和监管者，如何考虑利益集团的观点。 具体来说，这项研究是分析的权衡，限制，并允许增加私人当事人进入主要的国际贸易机构，世界贸易组织（WTO）的潜在病理。 这项研究使“利益攸关方”治理模式超越了目前的描述状态，分析的基础是世贸组织考虑贸易和环境问题的方式，以评估权衡、限制和潜在的病态（例如，有利于某些私人利益，损害他人利益）。 收集数据的主要方法是与世贸组织秘书处的主要成员、代表不同发展水平和地理位置的国家政府的世贸组织代表、政府间组织代表以及非营利组织和商业组织代表进行访谈。 此外，正在分析与世贸组织贸易与环境委员会有关的所有公开文件。该项目的成果将使学者、决策者和公民更好地了解世贸组织如何接收和处理来自第三方的信息，以及如何将信息分发给与其决定有利害关系的行为者。

This project is focusing on how international trade negotiators and regulators who make decisions on trade issues that impact on other social-political issues such as the degradation of the environment, take account of the views of interest groups. Specifically, this research is analyzing the tradeoffs, constraints, and potential pathologies of permitting increased access to private parties to the primary international trade body, the World Trade Organization (WTO). This research takes the `stakeholders` model of governance beyond its current descriptive state with an analysis grounded on the manner in which the WTO takes account of trade and environmental matters to evaluate tradeoffs, constraints, and potential pathologies (e.g., favoring certain private interests to others' detriment). The primary method being used to collect data uses interviews with key members of the WTO secretariat, a sample of WTO delegates from state governments representing differing levels of development and geographic location, representatives of intergovernmental organizations, and representatives of not-for-profit and business organizations. In addition, all public documents related to WTO Committee on Trade and Environment are being analyzed. The project results will provide scholars, policy makers and citizens with a much better understanding of how the WTO receives and processes information from third parties and how it distributes information to actors who have stakes in its decisions. %%% This project is focusing on how international trade negotiators and regulators who make decisions on trade issues that impact on other social-political issues such as the degradation of the environment, take account of the views of interest groups. Specifically, this research is analyzing the tradeoffs, constraints, and potential pathologies of permitting increased access to private parties to the primary international trade body, the World Trade Organization (WTO). This research takes the `stakeholders` model of governance beyond its current descriptive state with an analysis grounded on the manner in which the WTO takes account of trade and environmental matters to evaluate tradeoffs, constraints, and potential pathologies (e.g., favoring certain private interests to others' detriment). The primary method being used to collect data uses interviews with key members of the WTO secretariat, a sample of WTO delegates from state governments representing differing levels of development and geographic location, representatives of intergovernmental organizations, and representatives of not-for-profit and business organizations. In addition, all public documents related to WTO Committee on Trade and Environment are being analyzed. The project results will provide scholars, policy makers and citizens with a much better understanding of how the WTO receives and processes information from third parties and how it distributes information to actors who have stakes in its decisions.