PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Genetically Modified Food, The Takeaway, Environmental Governance
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It ranks 14th among the 16 peer countries only the us and australian perform worse. This is a drop in performance from out previous 2013 national report card where canada receives a c. 3 obstacles to better environmental performance at the global level: sovereignty, conflicting scientific data, tension between conflicting government priorities = economic growth objective vs environmental protection objective. Government wants to promote its exports, to grow economically. Needs to oppose tariff and non-tariff barriers that block its goods/services. Problem: environmental regulation sometimes viewed as non-tariff barrier. Food that has been genetically enhanced through molecular biology. Us biotech firms genetically modify fruits and vegetables: Gmo/beef cases highlights 2 barriers to environmental governance: conflicting goals of trade and economic growth vs environmental concerns, the problem of contradictory and/pr inconclusive research and data. Principle that countries are liable for damage that their citizens cause in another country: conversation of resources: Outside the political reach of individual nation states:
