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The EGA Negotiations: why they are important, why

they are stalled, and challenges ahead

Jaime de Melo, Jean-Marc Solleder

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Jaime de Melo, Jean-Marc Solleder. The EGA Negotiations: why they are important, why they are stalled, and challenges ahead. 2018. �hal-01907634�

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fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international

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The EGA Negotiations: why

they are important, why they

are stalled, and challenges

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Jaime de Melo | Jean-Marc Solleder

Jaime de Melo, Scientific Director at FERDI, and Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva. Email : jaime.demelo@unige.ch

Jean-Marc Solleder, University of Geneva.

Email: jean-marc.solleder@unige.ch

Abstract

Decade-long negotiations on the reduction of tariffs on Environmental Goods (EGs) at the Doha Round using a list approach to define EGs, failed to produce an agreement. In July 2014, 14 countries entered plurilateral negotiations under the ambit of the WTO. If successful, the resulting Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) would have eliminated tariffs on a list of EGs. These negotiations broke down in December 2016. The chapter documents this episode and the mercantilistic behavior of negotiators that prevented agreement on an extended list of EGs, a requirement to conclude a meaningful outcome for the environment.

A conclusion of the EGA negotiations under the current narrow agenda focusing only on tariffs could help build trust

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“Sur quoi la fondera-t-il l’économie du monde qu’il veut gouverner?

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sur la justice? Il l’ignore.”

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“Sur quoi la fondera-t-il l’économie du monde qu’il veut

gouverner? Sera-ce sur le caprice de chaque particulier?

Quelle confusion! Sera-ce sur la justice? Il l’ignore.”

Pascal

Created in 2003 , the Fondation pour les études et recherches

sur le développement international aims to promote a fuller

understanding of international economic development and the

factors that influence it.

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