Environmental Perspective of Ukrainian Trade Policy
Date
2018
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Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
Abstract
The transformation of contemporary economic relations is accompanied with a
tendency to a significant growth of population and, consequently, of the demand
for goods and services, exacerbating the problems of nonrenewable resource
overuse and ecosystem destruction. At the same time, the existing ecological
problems mainly have a supernational nature. Such circumstances form a necessity of reaching the balanced development and positive synergism between
commercial activity and ecology at the international level, which would enable
to satisfy existing growing needs for goods and services and ensure ecologically
friendly attitude to the environment at the same time. Considering the
abovementioned, solution of the described contradictions requires coordinated
actions at the international level.
At present, the international trade is developing, taking into account postulates
of sustainable development ideology. Implementation of the mentioned concept
in the commercial activity is reached by means of rationalization of resource
distribution and use, implementation of the latest scientific and technical achievements, etc. In particular, the importance of the mentioned problems have been
long acknowledged by the WTO member countries; that fact was represented in
stimulation of the sustainable development and green economics by means of
ratification of the number of provisions as for formation of the protection mechanism and control on the field of environmental protection. The mentioned norms are aimed at maintenance of balance as for promotion of ecological purposes, on
the one hand, and on the other hand, at avoidance of measures of commercial
activity protectionism and, as a result, of the negative impact on the rights of other
WTO member countries. As an exception, for the purpose of achieving ecological
benefits, it is allowed to violate such rules of international trade as nondiscrimination of obligations and prohibition of quantitative restrictions. At the
same time, it is distinguished that it is important to facilitate strengthening of the
potential in the field of trade and environmental protection for developing
countries.
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Keywords
trade policy, Environmental protection, Sustainable develo
Citation
Yatsenko O. Environmental Perspective of Ukrainian Trade Policy / Olha Yatsenko, Yuliya Zavadska // Industrial Policy and Sustainable Growth. Series Title: Sustainable Development / ed.: Murat A. Yülek. – Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2018. – P. 1–12.