What is the scope of the various EAs of trade and investment negotiations?
• The scope of the EAs for trade and investment negotiations is guided by the 2001 Framework for Conducting Environmental Assessments of Trade Negotiations. • The EAs aim to identify and assess the likely and significant environmental impacts on the Canadian environment. Transboundary, regional and global environmental impacts will be considered when they have a direct impact on the Canadian environment. • EAs cover issues for which there is a negotiating mandate. This will vary from one negotiation to another. • The Framework focuses the scope of analysis to environmental impacts in Canada. The environmental analysis is focused where the negotiations are expected to have an economic effect. This is determined based on the expected changes in the scale and structure of economic activity and the products and technology that are traded. The legal and policy effects of the agreement are also assessed for their environmental implications.
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