Enforcing Environmental Standards: Economic Mechanisms as Viable Means?

This volume contains the papers submitted to the interdisciplinary symposium Enforcing Environmental Standards: Economic Mechanisms as Viable Means? organized by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The symposium centered around the necessity to introduce into international law, characterized by a lack of central enforcement mechanisms, new mechanisms to enforce international standards for the protection of the environment. Modern international environmental law has established several economic mechanisms to inforce international standards for the protection of the environment, ranging from trade restrictions through economic incentives to an economically induced interstate cooperation. These mechanisms have been assessed by lawyers and economists with regard to their productivity.

The Protection of Environmental Interests of the World Community Through International Environmental Law.- The Evaluation of Enforcement Mechanisms in International Environmental Law.- The International Environmental Law of Cooperation.- The Concept of Sustainable Development.- The GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Process: Can it Reconcile Trade Rules and Environmental Needs?.- Trade and the Protection of the Environment after the Uruguay Round.- Trade Restrictions as Viable Means of Enforcing Compliance with International Environmental Law: An Economic Assessment.- Comment on the Paper: “Trade Restrictions as Viable Means of Enforcing Compliance with International Environmental Law: An Economic Assessment” Submitted by G. Kirchgässner and E. Mohr.- The Case of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species.- Trade Restrictions as a Means of Enforcing Compliance with International Environmental Law.- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: On the Road Towards Sustainable Development.- Beyond Pollution Control: Energy Efficiency Instruments in a Liberalised International Energy Market.- New Approaches to Achieve Sustainable Management of Tropical Timber.- The Convention on Biological Diversity: Using State Jurisdiction as a Means of Ensuring Compliance.- The Implementation of the Basel Convention in German National Environmental Law as an Example for the Use of the Economic Mechanisms.- Environmental Protection and Trade — the Contribution of the European Union.- From Theory to Practice: The Second Phase of the NAFTA Environmental Regime.- The Potential Impact of the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank, UNDP and UNEP.- Ecolabelling: Consumer Right-to-Know or Restrictive Business Practice?.- The Turbot War in the Northwest Atlantic: Quotasand the Conservation and Management of Marine Living Resources.- Fostering Recycling and World Trade Rules: Incompatible?.- List of Contributors.