Environmental sustainability is a critical component
of international trade. With pollution
at its highest levels and natural resources dwindling, The Trans-Pacific
Partnership must have standards to minimize the negative impact on the
environment. This trade deal has the highest environmental standards of any
trade deal ever. It has superior environmental rights, enforcement, and stiffer
penalties for those who violate. The Trans-Pacific Partnership requires countries to maintain and
enforce current environmental laws. It also requires protection for endangered
species, has regulations that forbid buying from illegal fishing vessels, promotes
conservation of marine animals, and prevents marine pollution. This trade agreement
recognizes ozone depletion and eliminates tariffs on green products. More trade
agreements should strive for the environmental standards like the Trans-Pacific
Partnership. To learn more about the
environmental protections of this agreement or to see how it compares to other
trade agreements click here: http://www.thirdway.org/memo/tpp-in-brief-environmental-standards
-Lorreen McCabe
This is truly exciting news! A GOLD standard agreement is remarkable. I'd like to think that as we continue to make agreements like the TPP; we'll also review and learn about what's not working and make revisions. It's important to improve our efforts on all protection issues. In this case environmental concerns,but TPP also addresses labor as well. Thanks for sharing this nugget of sunshine. -Sacha B.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I remember in my associates degree days that there were several summits that were attempting to enforce the ecoterrible concepts of some countries but it simply fell apart. There was no real way to enforce the fines and shut down massive pollution contributors.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me wonder how things would be if we had an overall world organization that would allow us to create enforcement capabilities. The UN would be the concept to start with but it simply has not got enough power to do this. It would also be looked at as a threat to most countries.
I also learned in that class that the 3rd world countries that are coming to the stage of producers of stuff are so anxious to create these goods that they are not considering the environmental aspects of it.