Facilitating Trade in Green Goods and Services:
Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Production and Trade

Project Summary

This project seeks to conduct an in-depth examination of mutually beneficial opportunities stemming from the increased international supply and demand for environmental goods and services. To accomplish this, the CEC will concentrate on ensuring the environmental integrity of the increased trade in environmental goods and services. Two interlocking components will comprise the project: (a) the further analysis of the environmental, marketing and international trade dimensions of sustainable natural resource utilization and (b) an examination of domestic and other policies required to facilitate international trade in green goods and services. In component (a), analysis will continue to concentrate on green goods in the agricultural sector. Emphasis will include continued work on shade-grown coffee, as well as on analysis of one other agricultural product, the production of which has the potential for enhancing habitat conservation. In the second component, (b), analysis will concentrate on identifying policies that serve to distort trade, or to facilitate trade in sustainable agricultural products.