Trade, Investment and Environment

The OECD programme on globalisation and environment aims to help realise the full benefits of economic globalisation, by exploiting synergies between trade/investment liberalisation and environmental policies. The environmental effects of export credit arrangements also need to be considered (read more).

What's new

A new brochure on the OECD work on Environment is available

07-Feb-2011

This brochure highlights the OECD work on Environment for 2011-2012, covering green growth, climate change, biodiversity, water, eco-innovation, chemical and bio-safety, resource efficiency.

Environment and Regional Trade Agreements: Developments in 2009

01-Jul-2010

A third update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and
environment covering the period late 2008 to December 2009. It complements the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements” prepared under the aegis of the Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment.

Linkages between environmental policy and competitiveness

15-Oct-2009

The objective of this study is to cover recent conceptual developments on the environmental policy - competitiveness linkages as well as to review empirical research literature since 1997. To this end, the paper develops an analytical framework of the linkages between environmental policy and competitiveness and, based on this framework, presents a literature review.

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