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  Environmental goods and services: a synthesis of country studies

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This study presents a synthesis of 17 country studies on environmental goods and services (EG&S). The countries examined are Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Thailand and Vietnam.
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  Environmental goods: where do the dynamic trade opportunities for developing countries lie?

  Cen2eco – Centre for Economic and Ecological Studies, 2005

  In support of ongoing WTO negotiations on trade liberalisation of environmental goods, this study seeks to review and clarify some of the key issues surrounding ongoing discussions and to provide trade data and analyses to assess developing countries’ current and potential performance in environmental goods trade.Main findings from the study include:data indicates that developing countr
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  The trade and environmental effects of ecolabels: assessment and response

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2005

  This report reviews what is known about ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier.
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  Partners in crime: the UK timber trade, Chinese sweatshops and Malaysian robber barons in Papua New Guinea’s rainforest

  Greenpeace International, 2005

  This document traces the production of Chinese hardwood and plywood from its origins in the forests of Papua New Guinea to the sweatshops of China and on to British builders and merchants.Based on investigations by Greenpeace, the document accuses the UK timber trade of fuelling illegal production of plywood and hardwood thus encouraging the destruction of Papua New Guinea’s rainforests.
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  The digital dump: exporting re-use and abuse to Africa

  Basel Action Network, 2005

  This report reveals that large quantities of obsolete computers, televisions, mobile phones, and other used electronic equipment exported from USA and Europe to Lagos, Nigeria for “re-use and repair” are ending up gathering dust in warehouses or being dumped and burned near residences in empty lots, roadsides and in swamps creating serious health and environmental contamination from the toxic leac
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  Environmental health and international trade: linkages and methodologies

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  This paper fleshes out the various linkages that exist between trade policy and environmental health. It is an analysis of the potential impact pathways by which trade policy might affect environmental health, based on a review of the literature and on the authors’ knowledge of trade-environment and assessment issues.
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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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  Integrated assessment of the impact of trade liberalization on the rice sector

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2005

  This document provides a synthesis of the integrated assessment studies conducted in the third, most recent, round of country projects commissioned by UNEP, which focused on the rice sector. It provides a detailed analysis of the environmental, social and economic implications of trade liberalisation in the rice sector in China, Colombia, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal and Viet Nam.
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  Saving water through global trade

  Water Footprint, 2005

  Many nations save domestic water resources by importing water-intensive products and exporting commodities that are less water intensive. National water saving through the import of a product can imply saving water at a global level if the flow is from sites with high to sites with low water productivity.
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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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