Professor Jörn Dosch

Professor Jörn Dosch in Kunming, Yunnan Province, the Chinese hub of the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Achieving a balance between trade and investment liberalisation and environment protection is one of the key challenges confronted by the GMS states.

This project - funded by the Trade Knowledge Network (TKN),  a global collaboration of research institutions across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas working on issues of trade, investment and sustainable development - delves into the following questions: 

1. To what extents are environmental considerations have been taken into account in trade and investment policy-making process?
2. What are key emerging trends in the GMS countries’ trade and investment regimes that have the potential to undermine the environmental sustainability of the region?
3. What key policy propositions are feasible to improve environmental considerations in trade/investment regimes in the GMS