Trade and Environment Review 2003

This Review addresses this concern by tackling trade and environment issues from a development perspective. It also attempts to provide developing countries´ Governments and civil society with a forum, in which to discuss their most important trade and environment issues and from which to influence the international agenda.Developing countries, however, are apprehensive that the subject of trade and environment issues is driven by developed countries´ Governments and non-governmental organizations from the north, on the basis of developed countries´ producer and consumer preferences, circumstances and visions, without sufficient heed being paid to conditions in developing countries and the latter´s development priorities. This Review addresses this concern by tackling trade and environment issues from a development perspective. It also attempts to provide developing countries´ Governments and civil society with a forum, in which to discuss their most important trade and environment issues and from which to influence the international agenda.