Sentences with phrase «environmental side agreement»

January 2014 will mark 20 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its environmental side agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC).

Others viewed the environmental side agreement as weak and unenforcable and continued to oppose NAFTA.

Environmental degradation — provisions in the environmental side agreement are non-binding.

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She went on to suggest a «trade timeout»: «I have put forward a very specific plan about what I would do, and it does include telling Canada and Mexico that we will opt out unless we renegotiate the core labor and environmental standards — not side agreements, but core agreements; that we will enhance the enforcement mechanism» ¦» Obama backed her up.

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

It also needs to incorporate the environmental and labor protections that are in side agreements.

From 1991 to 1993 Mr Weekes was Canada's chief negotiator for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), including for the side agreements on environmental and labor co-operation.

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was concluded there was concern about Mexican labour and environmental standards; side agreements were established around these topics, allowing civil society to raise complaints under the terms of the aAgreement was concluded there was concern about Mexican labour and environmental standards; side agreements were established around these topics, allowing civil society to raise complaints under the terms of the agreementagreement.

If China does not want to accept full labour commitments in the agreement itself, one solution might be to put labour and environmental commitments into a side agreement.

Some organizations supported NAFTA with its side agreements on the grounds that for the first time a trade agreement took environmental considerations into account.

Nevertheless, the symbolic expression of concern embodied in this side - agreement, and the existence of a new type of institution may provide a context from bringing environmental issues into trade considerations in new ways.

The possibility that this side agreement can be a vehicle of significant progress in integrating environmental considerations into issues of international trade led to a deep split within the environmental community.

State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), Congressman Eliot Engel (D - Bronx / Westchester), Senator Adriano Espaillat (D - Manhattan / Bronx), Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Council Member Andrew Cohen (D - Bronx) praised the agreement announced today between LG Electronics USA, Inc. and a coalition of conservation and environmental groups from both sides of the Hudson River that will preserve views of the Hudson Palisades from a proposed corporate headquarters that would have towered over the natural and historic landmarks protected by the Palisades Interstate Compact.

Providing cross-border legal advice and consultancy assistance in respect of NAFTA and free trade agreements (and environmental and labour side agreements) is one of LexSage's core competencies.

Students will develop tools for transnational practice by analyzing the myriad of legal issues involved in the trade of goods and services, including investment and intellectual property protection among the countries of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Special attention will be given to methods of resolving disputes under NAFTA, and to the controversies of environmental and labor law enforcement under the NAFTA Side Agreements.