The USMCA and its Environmental Protection Provisions [1.2886]

Authors

  • Sofía Sielfeld Ocampo Heidelberg Center Latin America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56754/2735-7236.2022.2886

Keywords:

US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement‘s (USMCA), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Environmental Protections, Environment

Abstract

One of the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement‘s (USMCA) particularities is its chapter 24, titled “Environment”. How innovative is this chapter? Or is it designed merely to placate environmentalists and the international community? This work seeks to analyze the USMCA environmental protection provisions, their effectiveness and innovativeness. This article concludes that what was done lacks innovation and is more environmentally relevant by what it excludes, in comparison to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), then by what it includes. It seems that environmental protection was more of an afterthought in the USMCA, rather than a real goal.

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Published

2022-04-20

How to Cite

Sielfeld Ocampo, Sofía. “The USMCA and Its Environmental Protection Provisions [1.2886]”. En Las Fronteras Del Derecho, vol. 1, Apr. 2022, doi:10.56754/2735-7236.2022.2886.

Issue

Vol. 1 (2022)

Section

Research Notes and Essays

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