Environmental Side Agreements to Trade Treaties: A New Model of Environmental Policy-Making?

Abstract

As the literature on improving international environmental treaty-making proliferates, this essay discusses whether includ­ing environmental conditions in trade agreements in general could be a new model for environmental policy-making. In the end, it is international cooperation and collaboration that lead to better environmental management. It is the contention of this piece that this increased cooperation is better established and developed through regional trade regimes than multilat­eral environmental agreements.