Trade negotiations and the environment
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- Less developed countries interests in trade and environment: how their concerns can be protected?
- ( F. Khatun / Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh , 2009)
- There is a growing concern that environmental issues may create both direct and indirect opportunities to introduce new barriers to trade. In fact, it is apprehended by DCs and LDCs that environmental...
- Environmental trends to 2030: an OECD perspective
- ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2008)
- The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges. ...
- What role can terrestrial carbon markets play in solving climate change problems?
- ( The Terrestrial Carbon Group , 2008)
- This paper argues that terrestrial carbon (including trees, soil, and peat) can be used to provide up to 25% of the climate change solution. The document focuses on the role and use of terrestrial car...
- Towards an inclusive and sustainable agenda? Progress and challengesfor the MDGs and the environment
- ( Z. Qureshi;P. Chuhan;M. Cropper / World Bank Research , 2008)
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This report assesses progress and priorities in the development and environmental agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It also addresses the interrelated challenges of develop...
- Clean Development Mechanism and the growth of the carbon market
- ( C. Carr;F. Rosembuj / , 2008)
- This article focuses on a specific type of offset program, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol . It provides an overview of the Kyoto “flexible mechanisms”, explain...
- Zambia's refusal of American GM food aid highlights the complexity of food issues
- ( C. Bergstrom / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2007)
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A failure to recongnise the complexity of food issues has led to the development of diverse and conflicting regulatory systems to address food trade and food safety. This paper uses the exampl...
- 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...
- Considerations for tariff liberalisation of environmental goods
- ( R. Howse; P. van Bork / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2006)
- This paper stems from WTO discussions of the mandate from paragraph 31(iii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration to “reduce or as appropriate eliminate tariffs and non-tariff barriers” on environmental...
- 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...
- A chapter in "The WTO and East Asian Regional Integration"
- ( M. Halle / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2006)
- This paper analyses the relationship between trade and sustainable development, in particular the relationship between trade and the environment. The paper argues that contrary to general opinion, th...
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