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Trade in services related to the environment

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  • Jehan Sauvage
  • Christina Timiliotis

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This paper discusses the nature and scope of international trade in environmentally related services, and analyses the implications that services trade restrictions have on the provisions of these services domestically and abroad. Numerous services appear crucial to the delivery and proper functioning of environmental goods and equipment be they a wastewater-treatment facility or a renewable power plant. By helping lower the costs of these services and improving access to world-class suppliers, trade policy can contribute alongside energy and environmental policy to the prevention and abatement of greenhouse-gas emissions and pollution in all its forms. Besides clarifying the role and scope of services related to the environment, the analysis undertaken in this paper suggests that the restrictions that countries impose on services trade may have a detrimental effect on the provision of environmental activities through the establishment by specialised firms of a commercial presence abroad, i.e. through mode 3 trade in services.

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  • Jehan Sauvage & Christina Timiliotis, 2017. "Trade in services related to the environment," OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers 2017/2, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:traaaa:2017/2-en
    DOI: 10.1787/dc99bf2b-en
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    1. Jaime DE MELO & Ben SHEPHERD, 2018. "The Economics of Non-Tariff Measures: A Primer," Working Papers P212, FERDI.
    2. Jaime de Melo & Jean-Marc Solleder, 2019. "The role of an Environmental Goods Agreement in the quest to improve the regime complex for climate change," Working Papers hal-02394536, HAL.
    3. Yadira Mori-Clement & Stefan Nabernegg & Birgit Bednar-Friedl, 2018. "Can preferential trade agreements enhance renewable electricity generation in emerging economies? A model-based policy analysis for Brazil and the European Union," Graz Economics Papers 2018-19, University of Graz, Department of Economics.
    4. Elisabeth Christen & Klaus S. Friesenbichler & Alexander Hudetz & Claudia Kettner-Marx & Ina Meyer & Franz Sinabell, 2021. "Außenhandel und nachhaltige Entwicklung in Österreich. Befunde auf der Grundlage von vorliegenden Quellen," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 69290, January.
    5. de Melo, Jaime & Solleder, Jean-Marc, 2020. "Barriers to trade in environmental goods: How important they are and what should developing countries expect from their removal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).
    6. Jaime de Melo & Jean-Marc Solleder, 2022. "Towards an Environmental Goods Agreement Style (EGAST) agenda to improve the regime complex for climate change," Chapters, in: Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change, chapter 13, pages 202-219, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    7. Lili Yan Ing & Ralf Peters & Olivier Cadot, 2019. "Regional Integration and NTM in ASEAN," Books, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), number 2019-regional_integration.

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    Keywords

    climate change; Environmental services; services trade restrictions; trade in services; trade policy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • F64 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Environment
    • L84 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Personal, Professional, and Business Services
    • L97 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Utilities: General
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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