Abstract
Despite its unprecedented focus on preserving the environment without sacrificing development, the Earth Summit bypassed an opportunity to discuss reforming the international trading system, and its impact on sustainable development. Instead, the participants in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development largely accepted the current state of the international trading system, and placed the onus of reform on environmental policy. The result was a failure to address the underlying conflicts between trade and the environment.
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