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Global environmental protection: solving the international public-goods problem by empowering the United Nations through cooperation with WTO

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  • Yew-Kwang Ng
  • Po-Ting Liu

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A significant, if not the major, characteristic of environmental protection is that its effect is largely worldwide. On the other hand, the world consists of hundreds of independent countries and regions. Therefore, an important problem in the protection of the global environment is that of the free-rider or public-goods problem. Pursuing its own interest, each country, state or region has insufficient incentive to safeguard global environment. This paper proposes a solution to this public-goods problem by enriching the United Nations with sufficient funds to subsidise abatement and empowering it with sharp enough teeth (through cooperation with the World Trade Organisation) to penalise non-compliance, including the failure to contribute the proposed higher contributions to the United Nations.

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  • Yew-Kwang Ng & Po-Ting Liu, 2003. "Global environmental protection: solving the international public-goods problem by empowering the United Nations through cooperation with WTO," International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(4), pages 409-417.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgenv:v:3:y:2003:i:4:p:409-417
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    1. Yew-Kwang Ng, 2004. "Optimal Environmental Charges/Taxes: Easy to Estimate and Surplus-yielding," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 28(4), pages 395-408, August.
    2. W. Max Corden & Peter Forsyth & Christis G. Tombazos, 2008. "Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2007: Yew‐Kwang Ng," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 84(265), pages 267-272, June.
    3. Yew‐Kwang Ng, 2008. "Happiness Studies: Ways to Improve Comparability and Some Public Policy Implications," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 84(265), pages 253-266, June.

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