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Biodiversity and its value [in Australia]
Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia, 1993Explains biodiversity and the three levels at which it is usually considered: genetic, species and ecosystem diversity. It also briefly discusses why biodiversity is important, especially the value of its components and diversity itself.DocumentTrade and Environment: A Business Perspective
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 1997The World Business Council for Sustainable Development rejects the notion of a trade versus environment debate.This report sets out directions and opportunities that can lead to mutual support between environmental protection and improvement, to an open trading system and to sustainable development.DocumentEuropean Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy: A CGE Multi Regional Analysis
Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1997This paper studies the economic effects of integrating the Central European Countries (CECs) into the EU under alternative assumptions with respect to the CAP.DocumentCAP Reforms: Will Developing Countries Benefit?
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1988The UK Presidency of the EU must oversee progress on the Agenda 2000 proposals to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP). The proposed reforms are limited and will not include the substantial trade liberalisation called for by critics of the CAP. This must wait for the next round of WTO negotiations.DocumentStandards and conformity assessment as nontariff barriers to trade
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997DocumentTRIPS versus CBD: Conflicts between the WTO regime of intellectual property rights and sustainable biodiversity management
GRAIN, 1998The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) threatens to make the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) impossible to implement. Yet as an international commitment, the CBD is as legally binding and authoritative as TRIPs. Well over 130 countries adhere to both treaties.DocumentRenegotiation of the Lome Convention: UK Governments response to the Select Committee on International Development's report
International Development Committee, UK, 1998DocumentRenegotiation of the Lome Convention: report by UK Select Committee on International Development
International Development Committee, UK, 1998Concentrates on the contents of the Draft Negotiating Mandate which, subject to whatever modifications are made under the UK Presidency, will form the basis for negotiations with the ACP. with the aim of encouraging the UK Government to argue for further changes during the negotiating process or indeed to argue that certain proposed changes are resisted.DocumentNAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review
Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastructure problems in the US-Mexican border region.DocumentWho owns the ecosystem?
Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-better" bias, the potential source of public backlash among landowners.Pages
