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  Trade and climate change linkages: a scoping paper produced for the trade ministers’ dialogue on climate change issues

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2007

  This paper sets out to scope the linkages between trade and investment and climate change. It aims to draw a broad picture on how trade and investment policy might contribute to efforts to address climate change.
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  Natural resources and trade flows in the Great Lakes region

  Department for International Development, UK, 2007

  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 and cobalt and also reviews regional transport and transit corridors and issues in the main transit countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. Key points include:
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  Markets for ecosystem services: new challenges and opportunities for business and the environment

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2007

  The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concludes that some two-thirds of the world’s ecosystem services are degraded or being used unsustainably. This briefing paper outlines the potential for mobilising business and markets to conserve nature. It argues that market mechanisms can be a powerful complement to existing strategies for conserving ecosystems, if used in the right way.
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  Well-being is a process of becoming: research with organic farmers in Madagascar

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007

  Should research be respondent-led? The author argues that respondent-led research is critical for ensuring that an understanding of the components of ‘quality of life’. 
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  An overview of key markets, tariffs and non-tariff measures on Asian exports of select environmental goods

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2007

  This paper examines the status and trend of environmental goods (EGs) produced by developing Asian countries and analyses major trade barriers faced by Asian EGs exporters. The sectors examined include: the pollution abatement/treatment equipment industry; the wind turbine industry; biofuels; and wood and wood based products.
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  UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative: BioTrade principles and criteria

  Biotrade Initiative, UNCTAD, 2007

  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 BioTrade Initiative's activities. They take into account the relevance of trade for specific species and ecosystems. This paper sets out the criteria to which BioTrade actors should aspire.
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  Virtual water trade: a realistic concept for resolving the water crisis?

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2007

  The concept of Virtual Water Trade (VWT) is based on the idea that water-poor developing countries are increasingly importing their food from water-rich countries.  in order to conserve their own water resources and use them in other, more productive areas where more value added per volume unit of water is generated.
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  Looking a gift horse in the mouth: the case of Zambia’s refusal to accept american food aid

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2007

  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 example of Zambia's refusal of American GM maize as food aid in 2002 to illustrate this point. It discusses:
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  Monitoring of illegal trade in ivory and other elephant specimens

  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 2007

  Examining the factors that give rise to illicit trade in elephant ivory, the conclusions in this paper include:
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  Promoting sustainable land management through trade: examining the linkages between trade, livelihoods and sustainable land management in degraded areas

  Global Mechanism, 2007

  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 there is a lack of structure for this market.

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