With a view to integrating principles of sustainable development more fully into the multilateral trading system, ICTSD engages in a range of activities relating to trade and environment, with a focus on the needs and concerns of developing countries.

ICTSD's outputs in trade and environment concentrate on ICTSD resources , dialogues, news, resources, partnerships, and links, and are available via the right-hand sidebar of this section.

New & Notable

• NEW US-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Chapter 19 - Environment (draft, 1 March 2004)
  
  
• US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): Chapter 17 - Environment (draft, 28 January 2004) and Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (draft, 27 January 2004)
  
  
• Southern Agenda on Trade and Environment web section -- an ICTSD/IISD/RING project on articulating regional priorities by developing countries on trade and environment. Includes info on upcoming 14-15 January 2004 Sri Lanka consultation and 10-11 October 2003 Chile consultation.
  
  
• Domestic Import Regulations for Genetically Modified Organisms and their Compatibility with WTO Rules - Some Key Issues, IISD-ICTSD Trade Knowledge Network, 2003: Full report | Executive Summary
  
  
• Doha Round Briefing on Trade and Environment Negotiations (August 2003)
  
  
• IIED-ICTSD Policy Views on Trade and Natural Resource Management (September 2003)
  
  
• News and resources on the EU-US biotech dispute at the WTO.