Is Global Environmental Governance Working ?
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NAFTA and its environmental side agreement were supposed to bring prosperity to Mexico and thus give it the money to improve public health and natural resource protection. So far, the treaties haven’t done either. But that does not mean that environmentalists’ criticism of the pacts was correct, just that proponents were wrong. It also means that new trade agreements being forged by the Bush administration could undermine the ability of its undeveloped-country trading partners to achieve sustainability
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