World Trade Organisation System

Synchronization of the legal nexus between market trade and environmental protection

Authors

  • Emmanuel Mensah Aboagye Law School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-9235
  • Nana Osei Owusu Xi'an Jiangtong University
  • Monica Yamoah Law School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
  • Richmond Ashiagbor Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China
  • Kwaku Obeng Effah Department of Political Science, University of Ghana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2179-3565.2022v13i1p32-43

Keywords:

World Trade Organization, Trade, environment, coordination

Abstract

In today’s world, sustainable development has become the consensus of the international community. With the development and progress of the world economy and the launch of the wave of environmental protection in the world, market trade and environmental protection issues have gradually gained the full attention of government departments and people in many countries around the world, and gradually developed into one of the core issues in the global political, economic and multi-industry fields. The laws and regulations on environmental protection adopted by international organizations and countries and the basic rules of market trade constitute the basis for applying environmental control supervision. The researchers adopted a systematic online search to identify journal articles, reports, and other relevant documents related to the market trade and environmental protection. The online search was done mainly on Google, Google Scholar and Bing to retrieve related documents on market trade and environmental protection. The study unraveled a complex relationship between market trade and environmental protection, and the international community has paid too much attention.  Foreign trade policy aims to avoid the development of a new market trade restriction and implementation program, protect market trade, eliminate the existing barriers to the market trade, restrict market trade laws and regulations, and finally achieve the way to increase the effectiveness of market trade.  Therefore, environmental protection and market trade are two systems, and it is a core contradiction to abide by which fundamental principles are observed. To solve and deal with the relationship between market trade and the environment, it must redefine the relevant influencing factors in these two systems. The researchers suggested that through the coordination of management, there should be a careful study from the experience of relevant organizations, such as the European Union, NAFTA, OECD and then put forward specific ideas for coordinated management.

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2022-04-07

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