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  Emerging issues in the interface between trade, climate change and sustainable energy

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2005

  In order for countries to meet internationally agreed emissions targets, international trade policy will need to reflect these commitments. This paper argues that the aims of the Kyoto Protocol can be aligned with World Trade Organization (WTO) requirements in most cases. However, rather inflexible WTO trade rules limit the options governments have to integrate climate aspects into trade policy.
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  2005 World Summit outcome: achievements in brief

  United Nations and Global Security, 2005

  This fact sheet summarises the agreements made by the world’s leaders, meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York September 2005, on the action to be taken action on a range of global challenges, and changes to be made within the UN system.Areas of action include:Development:strong and unambiguous commitment by all governments, in donor and developing nations alike, to a
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  Hoodwinked in the hothouse: the G8, climate change and free-market environmentalism

  Transnational Institute, 2005

  This briefing examines the origins of the neoliberal economic paradigm and carbon "offset culture" of the G8 nations and other power blocs in the context of climate change, and the way it is being enthusiastically applied as a panacea in other areas of environmental policy as well.
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  Warming aid, chilling trade?

  International Policy Network, 2003

  This paper discusses the mechanisms available for the enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol, and specifically the potential role of trade sanctions as a means of enforcement.Because they are entangled in regulation, European businesses may be less efficient and competitive than their international counterparts.
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  Going local on a global scale: rethinking food trade in the era of climate change, dumping, and rural poverty

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2005

  This brief discusses how producing and marketing more food locally can help alleviate both global climate change and rural poverty.
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  Memorandum to the inquiry into the international challenge of climate change: UK leadership in the G8 and EU

  The Corner House, UK, 2005

  With this memorandum a coalition of The Corner House, SinksWatch and Carbon Trade Watch comment on a number of issues which have arisen form the UK Environmental Audit Committee's present inquiry into the feasibility of emissions trading systems as a framework for negotiating a post-Kyoto agreement.The Memorandum investigates whether an international emissions trading system (ETS) is feasible,
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  Climate and trade rules: harmony or conflict?

  National Board of Trade, Sweden, 2004

  This report investigates the relationship between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), its Kyoto Protocol and WTO rules.
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  The environment, natural resources and HIV/AIDS

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This short report looks at impacts of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the environment, with a focus on rural areas in Africa.
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  Reaching sustainable food security for all by 2020: Getting the priorities and responsibilities right

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  As part of its 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Initiative, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has articulated a vision of what the world should look like in 2020: It describes a world free from poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and unsustainable natural resource management.This document presents the outcomes of a conference which considered the driving
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  Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2003

  This paper demonstrates that almost 30 Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) incorporate trade measures, regulating or restraining the trade in particular substances or products, either between parties to the treaty and/or between parties and non-parties.

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