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Titulaire d'une maîtrise en stratégie fiscale et juridique internationale d'HEC Paris, ainsi que d'une maîtrise en économie de l'environnement de l'Université de Bordeaux, Noémie Laurens est assistante de recherche à la Chaire de recherche du Canada en Économie Politique Internationale depuis juin 2017. Dans le cadre de son travail à la Chaire, Noémie contribue à la construction et la mise à jour de bases de données de traités de libre-échange et de traités environnementaux. Elle travaille également sur plusieurs articles scientifiques en lien avec ces bases de données.
Noémie a effectué un séjour de recherche de six mois à l'Université McGill (Montréal) en 2019, ainsi qu'un séjour de recherche de deux mois au Graduate Institute (Genève) en 2020.
En 2019, Noémie a obtenu un financement de quatre ans de la part du Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC).
Projet de thèse : Intégration ou Silos? Une Analyse Duale des Stratégies d’Articulation des Domaines du Commerce et de l’Environnement dans les Traités Internationaux
Courriel : noemie.laurens.1@ulaval.ca
Intérêts de recherche
Relations internationales, commerce international, gouvernance environnementale, analyse de réseaux, QCA
Articles scientifiques
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Laurens, N and JF Morin (2019) "Negotiating Environmental Protection in Trade Agreements: A Regime Shift or a Tactical Linkage?" International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 19(6), 533-556.
The prolific literature on the relationship between the trade and environmental regimes suffers from three shortcomings. First, it myopically focuses on multilateral institutions while the vast majority of trade and environmental agreements are bilateral. Second, when studies consider preferential trade agreements’ (PTAs) environmental provisions, they are often limited to US and EU agreements. Third, it examines how the trade and environmental regimes negatively affect each other, leaving aside their potential synergies. Conversely, this article assesses the potential contribution of PTAs to international environmental law. Several PTAs include a full-fledged chapter devoted to environmental protection and contain detailed commitments on various environmental issue areas. One possible scenario is that countries that are dissatisfied with traditional settings for environmental lawmaking engage in a process of “regime shifting” toward PTAs to move forward on their environmental agenda. The alternative is that PTAs’ environmental provisions are the result of “tactical linkages” and merely duplicate extant obligations from international environmental law to serve political goals. We shed light on this question by building on two datasets of 690 PTAs and 2343 environmental treaties. We investigate four potential contributions of PTAs to environmental law: the diffusion of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), the diffusion of existing environmental rules, the design of new environmental rules, and the legal prevalence of MEAs. The article concludes that the contribution of PTAs to the strengthening of states’ commitments under international environmental law is very modest on the four dimensions examined.
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Laurens, N, Z Dove, JF Morin and S. Jinnah (2019) "NAFTA 2.0: The Greenest Trade Agreement Ever?", World Trade Review 18(4) : 659-677.
The renegotiation of what US President Trump called “the worst trade deal ever” has resulted in the most detailed environmental chapter in any trade agreement in history. The USMCA mentions dozens of environmental issues that its predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), overlooked, and in line with contemporary US practice, brings the vast majority of environmental provisions into the core of the agreement, and subjects these provisions to a sanction-based dispute settlement mechanism. It also jettisons two controversial NAFTA measures potentially harmful to the environment. However, this paper argues that the USMCA only makes limited contributions to environmental protection. It primarily replicates most of the environmental provisions included in prior agreements, and only introduces three new environmental provisions. Moreover, it avoids important issues such as climate change, it does not mention the precautionary principle, and it scales back some environmental provisions related to multilateral environmental agreements.
Chapitres d’ouvrages collectifs
Communications avec arbitrage
Conférences, séminaires et ateliers
Rapports et documents de politique
Textes d’opinion et lettres ouvertes
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Laurens, N et JF Morin, "Le véritables déficiences environnementales dans les accords commerciaux sont ailleurs",Le Monde, 28 juillet 2020.
Sur les enjeux du commerce et du climat, les deux politistes Noémie Laurens et Jean-Frédéric Morin invitent, dans une tribune au « Monde », à mieux choisir ses batailles, par exemple, à s’attaquer aux subventions octroyées aux énergies fossiles, plutôt qu’à remettre en cause le CETA.