Trade and natural resources
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What support is needed to build a market for fair trade timber?
- ( D. Macqueen / Sustainable Markets Group, IIED , 2008)
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Unlike coffee and cotton, timber has yet to become a fair trade commodity. This two-page briefing argues that the time has now come to change this. It argues that a partnership with the fair trade ...
- Can improved natural resource exploitation and trade help reduce poverty in the Great Lakes region?
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007)
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This document analyses natural resource exploitation and trade at four main border areas in the Great Lakes region. It looks at the mechanisms of exploitation for cassiterite, coltan, gold, copper ...
- Guide for BioTrade programmes
- ( Biotrade Initiative, UNCTAD , 2007)
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The BioTrade principles and criteria have been defined by the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and the BioTrade national programmes, and provide the core of the conceptual framework underlying the BioTra...
- Trade regimes change required for sustainable land management
- ( M. Chamay;J. Hepburn;M. Gueye Kamal;M. Sugathan;E. Canigiani / Global Mechanism , 2007)
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Drylands have potential for economic activity now markets are emerging for natural products such as aloe or gum Arabic. However it is difficult to take advantage of these opportunities because ther...
- Incorporating special and differential treatment and environmentally preferable products of export into future WTO negotiations
- ( S. Singh / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2005)
- In analysing possible approaches for ensuring balanced trade gains in the ongoing WTO negotiations, the author suggests that a combination of special and differential treatment (SDT) provisions and en...
- Are the negative impacts of regulatory costs being overestimated?
- ( F. Ackerman / Department of Economics, Tufts University, USA , 2006)
- This paper asks: 'Will unbearable regulatory costs ruin the US economy?' It argues that what is remarkable about regulatory costs is not their heavy economic burden, but rather their lightness. The pa...
- Trade negotiations: posing a danger to people and their environments around the world
- ( Friends of the Earth International , 2006)
- This publication argues that current trade negotiations pose danger to people and their environments around the world, and highlights how people are losing their livelihoods and natural resources in t...
- Ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier
- ( T. Rotherham / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2005)
- This report reviews what is known about ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier. It focuses on five well-known ecolabelling programmes that incorporate environmen...
- The environmental and social costs of illegal logging and plywood production from Papua New Guinea’s rainforests
- ( Greenpeace International , 2005)
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This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.
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- Developing ecosystem services markets for forest carbon sequestration
- ( M. N. Salleh; M. V. Galante / Tropbio Group , 2005)
- This paper argues strongly that forestry generally - and in particular as a means of carbon storage – has an important role to play in the achievement of environmental protection, social development a...
