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  Intellectual property and access to clean energy technologies in developing countries: an analysis of solar photovoltaic, bio fuel and wind technologies

  Trade and Environment, 2007

  This paper explores whether developing countries will face barriers accessing technologies in reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. Focusing on intellectual property rights (IP), it concentrates on the more scientifically advanced developing countries such as Brazil, China, and India.
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  Patents: taken for granted in plans for a global biofuels market

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2007

  Understanding patent policy is crucial for predicting how the biofuels technologies can aid or hinder sustainable development. This article examines the influence that patents will have on the biofuel trade and stakeholders involved.
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  Towards a single development vision and the role of the single economy

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2007

  This report is meant to provide a vision for the development of the Caribbean Community to which all stakeholders can give their support. It aims to serve as a basis for decisions by the Heads of Government on a ‘road map’ for the further implementation of the Caricom Single Market and Economy.
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  The world is still waiting: broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives

  Oxfam, 2007

  This report from Oxfam, written in the run up to the 2007 G8 summit, calls on G8 leaders to meet their promises to tackle global poverty, injustice and climate change. Despite some areas of real progress in the past two years, the report argues that overall progress has fallen far short of promises, the cost of which is millions of lives lost due to poverty.
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  Liberty Institute, India

  The Liberty Institute promotes awareness of the four institutional pillars of a free society -- individual rights, the rule of law, limited government, and free markets.
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  Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD)

  FIELD is a non-governmental organisation bringing together public international lawyers committed to the promotion of environmental protection and sustainable development through law.
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  Linking trade, climate change and energy

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2006

  This collection of issue briefings highlights the links between international trade, climate change and energy. The report covers the following topics:
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  The view from the summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

  Oxfam, 2006

  One year after the G8 Summit at Gleneagels (2005), this paper examines progress that has been made since then in the areas of debt, aid, conflict, trade, and climate change.Debt Cancellation: in January 2006, the IMF cancelled the debts owed to it by 19 of the world’s poorest countries, which is the first part of the deal struck by the G8 in 2005 to cancel debts owed by up to 40 of the w
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  Free riding on the climate: the possibility of legal, economic and trade restrictive measures to tackle inaction on global warming

  New Economics Foundation, 2003

  This paper argues that economic and trade measures offer a new and entirely legitimate way to raise the costs of inaction to industrialised countries that are not supporting the Kyoto Protocol.
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  Opportunities and challenges in carbon sequestration and forestry

  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 and economic development goals.

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