Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Trade agreements only partly shift environmental burden onto poorer countries
Bern (ots) - Is trade liberalisation shifting environmental burden from industrialised countries to poorer ones? This question was investigated by a research team at ETH Zurich led by Thomas Bernauer. In particular, they analysed whether, and if so how, commerce driven by free trade agreements is transferring environmental impacts from industrialised countries to ...