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  World Trade Organization: Fifth Ministerial, Cancun, Mexico

  WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003

  This pamphlet introduces major issues on the agenda at the Cancún WTO ministerial conference.
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  Developing countries: victims or participants, their changing role in international negotiations

  Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2003

  This paper questions how developing countries can effectively participate in international negotiations as they become an increasingly important part of the international system.The author addresses the following questions:Can developing countries participate effectively in these negotiations, and can they obtain benefits from such participation?What lessons can be learnt from past
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  Can the south afford to go green?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How does trade impact on the environment? Why do many southern governments regard environmental protection as a low priority? Are they justified in thinking that pressures to clean up their environmental act are part of a deceitful northern trade protectionism agenda? Could the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have benefits for the south?
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  Collision course: free trade’s free ride on the global climate

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Economic activity can cause environmental degradation, it is clear. But just how great is the impact of international trade on the global environment? This study focuses on the extent to which the transportation of goods around the world increases greenhouse gases and leads directly to climate change.
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  Great expectations: can international emissions trading deliver an equitable climate regime?

  Climate Policy, 2003

  This article investigates the common assumption that international emissions trading will act both as a cost-effective means of promoting compliance with emissions targets, and a means to generate financial transfers, typically from industrialised to transitioning and developing countries The paper finds that: the two purposes might not be mutually supportive, and that efforts to use in
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  Aviation and the environment: using economic instruments

  2003

  This is an outline document of the options available to the UK government in ensuring that the aviation industry is encouraged to take account of, and where appropriate reduce, its contribution to global warming, local air and noise pollution.The report states that the government's objectives for aviation include sustainability and the polluter pays principle.
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  Carbon finance and the global equity markets

  Carbon Disclosure Project, 2003

  This paper examines the increasing attention on companies to diminish greenhouse gas emissions, assesses how companies are implementing these reduction policies, and attempts to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of a similar action.
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  Opportunities and risks for the poor in developing countries

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2002

  The authors of this paper argue that the forces of globalization ought to influence and contribute towards positive health outcomes for the poor in developing countries.
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  Chasing shadows: re-imagining finance for development

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  Starting from the premise that finance is not about money, but about the relationships among people, states, markets and natural environment, this report provides three key-features so that finance can become a “real” tool for development.The paper warns that:in order to achieve the objectives of global security and meeting basic human development needs, the imbalance between free marke
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  Forest carbon and local livelihoods: assessment of opportunities and policy recommendations

  Future Harvest, 2002

  In preparation for the eighth session of the conference of the parties (COP8) to the Climate Change Convention, this report argues that businesses looking to buy carbon credits should do so by funding forests planted and managed by local people. It is argued that forest planting can mitigate global warming and that carbon producing business can mitigate their impact on the global climate by buy

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