AUTHORS: IEEP-GHK

IEEP and GHK Consulting Ltd were commissioned by Defra to examine the environmental impacts of aspects of trade liberalisation and to identify appropriate flanking measures to address them. The study is intended to provide a relatively rapid survey of the potential environmental effects of aspects of trade liberalisation, based on existing published literature for a selection of different commodities and sectors.The study is organised in two stages: stage 1 focuses on case studies of agricultural commodities – dairy, sugar,vegetables, cotton and poultry; stage 2 examines the wider impacts of liberalisation in certain non-agriculturalsectors.