Trần Thăng Long

Phó Giáo sư, Tiến sĩ luật học, P. Trưởng Khoa (phụ trách) Khoa Ngoại ngữ pháp lý, Đại học Luật TP.HCM (Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Nguyễn Phượng An

Thạc sĩ Luật học, Khoa Luật Quốc tế, Đại học Luật TP.HCM (Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

In addition to concerns related to promoting cooperation and trade development, new generation FTAs ​​also devote a part of the content to regulations on non-trade issues, including sustainable development. Sustainable development is a harmonious combination between the needs of economic development and solving social problems, protecting the environment, respecting human rights... so as not to harm future generations. Conservation of biodiversity is one of the important contents to ensure sustainable development. Within the scope of the article, the authors will analyze the role of biodiversity conservation for sustainable development, thereby studying regulations in CPTPP, EVFTA and analyze the methods Member States used to enforce these regulations to conserve biodiversity for the sake of sustainable development. At the same time, the authors also evaluate the compatibility of regulations on biodiversity conservation in Vietnamese law and the content of EVFTA and CPTPP in order to propose some recommendations for improvement.

Keywords: New generation free trade agreements, EVFTA, CPTPP, sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, environment