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Legal aspects of exchange, use and conservation of farm animal genetic resources
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007This report is a background study for the FAO commissioned study ‘Exchange, Use andDocumentCSR and trade: informing consumers about social and environmental conditions of globalised production
OECD Trade Directorate, 2007This paper investigates how consumers in OECD markets are informed about the social and environmental conditions under which products have been produced. Focus is on fish products, cut flowers, the cosmetic industry, textiles and clothing.DocumentPolicy space for Mexican maize: protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2007This policy analysis examines the room for alternative policies for agricultural provisions in Mexico under existing economic and environmental agreements, including North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).DocumentLinking trade, climate change and energy
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2006This collection of issue briefings highlights the links between international trade, climate change and energy. The report covers the following topics:DocumentOptions for liberalising trade in environmental goods in the Doha Round
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2006This 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 goods since 2001.DocumentHuman Rights, trade and investment matter
Amnesty International, 2006This collection of articles on trade, investment and human rights examines the linkages between economic globalisation and human rights, and contextualise concerns which have bee raised in on the human rights implications of investment agreements between states and companies.The first section of this journal focuses on the role of financial institutions in shaping standards.DocumentEnvironment and trade: a handbook (second edition)
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006The handbook explains how trade can affect the environment, both positively and negatively, and how environmental concern can work through the trading system to foster or hinder development in both rich and poor countries.The handbook provides:an introduction to trade flows, environmental and trade linkages, and the differing viewpoints on their integrationa discussion of environmenDocumentLiberalisation of trade in renewable-energy products and associated goods: charcoal, solar photovoltaic systems, and wind pumps and turbines
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005Numerous studies and events over the past several years have stressed the importance of eliminating barriers to trade in renewable forms of energy and the technologies used to exploit them, as part of a broader strategy to reduce dependence on more-polluting and less secure energy sources.DocumentLiberalising trade in environmental goods: some practical considerations
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005This chapter explores some practical issues that have arisen in the TO negotiations on environmental goods and services, especially issues pertaining to liberalising trade in environmental goods.The paper outlines the following concerns: environmental goods are not covered by a single chapter of the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System and therefore an agreement on environDocumentFree riding on the climate: the possibility of legal, economic and trade restrictive measures to tackle inaction on global warming
New Economics Foundation, 2003This 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.Pages