Attention to environmental issues is vital if the full potential economic                  benefits of international trade are to be realized. Greening the Americas offers a                  number of analytically rigorous proposals to ensure that economic integration in the                  Western Hemisphere proceeds in an environmentally sustainable and politically                  sensible manner.The chapters review the history of the environmental negotiations of                  the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), explore the treaty's economic and                  environmental impacts, and draw lessons that can be applied to the ongoing Free                  Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations. Greening the Americas analyzes in                  detail NAFTA's environmental elements, highlighting those provisions that should be                  included in future agreements and those that should be amended or dropped. The book                  includes contributions from a diverse set of participants in the debate about how to                  link environmental policy and trade agreements. The perspectives range from the                  broadly optimistic about environmental effects of trade and trade liberalization to                  a more pessimistic view of the economic and social effects of open markets and                  economic integration. What unites all of the contributions is a commitment to engage                  constructively in the policy dialogue over how best to integrate trade and                  environmental policy making in the Americas.

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