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Welcome to the website of the "DR - CAFTA and the Enviroment: Challenges and Opportunities"

GFDD/FUNGLODE will hold a two-day conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on October 4th - 5th, where one of the goals of this conference is to open the discussion among stakeholders on the environmental aspects of DR-CAFTA from a domestic and international point of view.
 
"Flamingos Rosados"
 
"Air Pollution"
 

"Some of the features of the Agreement in the environmental field are:"

Ensure that trade and environmental policies are mutually supportive, seek to protect and preserve the environment, and enhance the international means of doing so, while optimizing the use of the world’s resources.

Seek provisions in trade agreements under which parties to those agreements strive to ensure that they do not weaken or reduce the protections afforded in domestic environmental laws as an encouragement for trade.

Ensure that parties do not fail to effectively enforce environmental laws through a sustained or recurring course of action or inaction.

Strengthen the capacity of U.S. trading partners to protect the environment through the promotion of sustainable development. Reduce or eliminate government practices or policies that unduly threaten sustainable development.


"Main new environmental features of the Agreement include"

DR-CAFTA’s citizen submission process, which targets non-enforcement of environmental laws, is the first ever citizen complaint procedure included in a trade agreement.

DR-CAFTA’s support for voluntary mechanisms to enhance environmental performance represents the first time a trade agreement recognizes and encourages incentives to encourage conservation and protection of the environment.

DR-CAFTA’s explicit recognition of multilateral environmental agreements represents the first time a trade agreement calls on parties to enhance the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements.

An open discussion among local and international specialists regarding the short and long term environmental impact the enforcement of the Agreement will have in the Dominican Republic and the region is greatly necessary.