Trade and the Environment

The Trade, Macroeconomic Reform, and the Environment project was aimed at analyzing key issues in the debate on trade and the environment, and engaged policy-makers and academics in developing and industrialized countries. As a result of a symposium organized in 1998, the World Bank published Trade, Global Policy and the Environment, 1999, a follow-up to the widely cited volume on International Trade and the Environment published by the Bank in 1992. In addition to the papers produced by the Policy and Economics Team itself, a number of contributions were made from other World Bank departments, outside academics, and Non-governmental Organizations.

Publications related to this project can be downloaded below.

• International Trade and Climate Change, 2008 (876 Kb PDF)
• Trade Liberalization and the Environment in Vietnam, 2006 (230 Kb PDF)

• Trade, Global Policy and the Environment, 1999 (16.35 Mb PDF)
  
  
• International Trade and Recycling in Developing Countries: The case of wastepaper in India, 1996 (Institute for Environmental Studies)  (116 Kb PDF)
  
  
• Plastics Recycling in China: an International Life Cycle Approach, 1999 (Institute for Environmental Studies)  (537 Kb PDF)
  
  
• Recycling of Materials: Local or Global, 1998 (Kluwer Academic Publishers)  (130 Kb PDF)