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    Natural resources and trade flows in the Great Lakes region

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    This document analyses natural resource exploitation and trade at four main border areas in the Great Lakes region. It looks at the mechanisms of exploitation for cassiterite, coltan, gold, copper and cobalt and also reviews regional transport and transit corridors and issues in the main transit countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. Key points include:
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    Markets for ecosystem services: new challenges and opportunities for business and the environment

    World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2007
    The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concludes that some two-thirds of the world’s ecosystem services are degraded or being used unsustainably. This briefing paper outlines the potential for mobilising business and markets to conserve nature. It argues that market mechanisms can be a powerful complement to existing strategies for conserving ecosystems, if used in the right way.
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    UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative: BioTrade principles and criteria

    Biotrade Initiative, UNCTAD, 2007
    The BioTrade principles and criteria have been defined by the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and the BioTrade national programmes, and provide the core of the conceptual framework underlying the BioTrade Initiative's activities. They take into account the relevance of trade for specific species and ecosystems. This paper sets out the criteria to which BioTrade actors should aspire.
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    Virtual water trade: a realistic concept for resolving the water crisis?

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2007
    The concept of Virtual Water Trade (VWT) is based on the idea that water-poor developing countries are increasingly importing their food from water-rich countries.  in order to conserve their own water resources and use them in other, more productive areas where more value added per volume unit of water is generated.
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    Monitoring of illegal trade in ivory and other elephant specimens

    Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 2007
    Examining the factors that give rise to illicit trade in elephant ivory, the conclusions in this paper include:
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    Promoting sustainable land management through trade: examining the linkages between trade, livelihoods and sustainable land management in degraded areas

    Global Mechanism, 2007
    Drylands have potential for economic activity now markets are emerging for natural products such as aloe or gum Arabic. However it is difficult to take advantage of these opportunities because there is a lack of structure for this market.
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    Legal aspects of exchange, use and conservation of farm animal genetic resources

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2007
    This report is a background study for the FAO commissioned study ‘Exchange, Use and
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    Linking trade, climate change and energy

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2006
    This collection of issue briefings highlights the links between international trade, climate change and energy. The report covers the following topics:
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    Environment and trade: a handbook (second edition)

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006
    The 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 environmen
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    Liberalisation 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, 2005
    Numerous 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.

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