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  Transport, trade and climate change: carbon footprints, fuel subsidies and market-based measures

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011

  Transport contributes significantly to global GHG emissions and measures to mitigate these emissions are essential. This paper discusses several measures that can contribute to mitigating emissions related to trade and transport. These measures include: carbon footprinting, elimination of fossil fuel subsidies and market-based measures (MBMs). The main conclusions include:
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  Environmental impacts of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on the Greater Mekong Sub-region

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008

  Environmental issues have received attention from Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) leaders. However, there is lack of institutional mechanisms to coordinate the implementation of environmental protection policies or action plans.
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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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  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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  Trade liberalisation and the environment in Vietnam

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  This paper analyses Vietnam’s shift in trading and investment patterns with a particular focus on the environmental implications resulting from greater openness of the economy over the past decade.The paper finds that:following liberalisation manufacturing output has been significantly higher from the water pollution intensive sectors compared to the less pollution intensive sectors
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  The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs

  Department of Economics, Tufts University, USA, 2006

  This paper asks: 'Will unbearable regulatory costs ruin the US economy?' It argues that what is remarkable about regulatory costs is not their heavy economic burden, but rather their lightness.
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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.