Trade in goods and services related to environment

Abstract

Among different issues of modern world trade there are some problems known as non-trade concerns, which include environmental issues, climate change, human and animal health. In different international negotiations states have been aiming to liberalize trade in Environmental Goods and Services. This expression became a formal term for trade in the specific area pertaining to environment. Unfortunately, using nowadays equivalent of this English term Ecological goods and services in Russian is incorrect. The author claims that the existing linguistic discrepancy may have negative consequences and for avoiding them the author proposes to introduce another term “goods and services related to environment” in Russian that matches the English one.