Over the last couple of months, Russia has been negotiating to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). True, free trade and associated benefits that WTO has to offer are quite tempting to many countries praying for more "foreign money". Today when terms such as climate change, environmental conservation and sustainability top our agendas, is the current international trade law by which disciples of free trade are obsessed doing any good to our planet? Is the WTO and its dispute settlement body doing enough for the environment? It's time to give a rethink.
