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Sustainable Americas Project
Since 1998, the project has worked to link trade and environment. The project seeks to promote the idea that environmental stresses carry important economic consequences which need to be considered explicitly in structuring trade and investment agreements. The key question is no longer whether to link trade and environment issues, but how to do it. Our premise is that trade processes (such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, FTAA) offer not only environmental challenges, but also potential opportunities for advancing the trade and environment debate.
We seek to engage in the trade and environment debate in the Americas through research and writing, expanding the regional scope of our network of interlocutors, interacting with members from the trade, NGO, and academic community and participating in key trade and environment events and dialogues across the hemisphere.
Our ultimate goal is to facilitate discussions and advance specific proposals across the Americas which involves three components:
1. Analysis and Outreach
2. Partnerships in Latin America,
and
3. Linkages with the multilateral
context.
Funding for this project has been provided by the Ford Foundation.
New Publication
Greening the Americas:
NAFTAís Lessons for Hemispheric Trade
Carolyn Deere and Daniel C. Esty, editors
MIT Press
Many environmentalists complain that trade liberalization can run roughshod
over efforts to control pollution and manage natural resources; advocates
of free trade see green groups as protectionist. Arguing that attention
to environmental issues is vital for realizing the potential economic benefits
of international trade, this book offers an environmental agenda for the
proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) that aims to ensure that
economic integration in the Western Hemisphere proceeds in an environmentally
sustainable and politically sensible manner. Yale Center for Environmental
Law and Policy
Sage Hall
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT
Telephone: 203.432.3123
Fax: 203.432.6597
Email: barbara.ruth@yale.edu
