Completed Projects

Global Environment and Trade Study (GETS)
Seeks to make trade liberalization and environmental protection more mutually reinforcing. A collaboration between YCELP, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minnesota and other partners, this project endeavors to provide better analytic underpinnings for efforts to integrate trade and environmental policymaking. One element of this work, (the Sustainable Americas Project) focuses on the lessons of NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, while other aspects address the World Trade Organization. To download the final GETS report, please click here.

Environmental Protection in the Asia Pacific
Seeks to discover how environmental protection can be achieved in the context of rapid economic growth and integration in the Asia Pacific Region.

Regulation and Competitiveness Project
Provides an umbrella for a set of research efforts related to the competitiveness effects of variations in regulatory requirements, especially environmental standards, across countries.

Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment
Supports UNDP's efforts to bring the public and private sectors together to address urban environmental issues.

Next Generation of Transportation Strategies
Applies new thinking to environmental issues in the transportation sector.

Powering China
Seeks to understand the environmental implications of China's economic growth.

Empresa Informa
Encourages a constructive and specialized dialogue in Latin America over corporate sustainability reporting practices.

Information Age

Corporate Environmental Policymaking