Bridges Trade BioRes

Volume 1 • Number 1 22nd November 2001

  • New Publication On Trade And Biological Resources
    New Publication On Trade And Biological Resources The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) is proud to present a new product to the trade and sustainable development communities: BRIDGES Trade BioRes - Trade and Biological Resources News Digest. This new publication is produced in collaboration with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, and…
  • Environment Makes Its Way Onto The WTO Negotiating Agenda
    Environment Makes Its Way Onto The WTO Negotiating Agenda WTO Members for the first time in the trade body’s history agreed to negotiations on environmental issues, thereby at least partly meeting one of the key demands pushed by the EC at the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, held in Doha, Qatar, on 9-14 November. The negotiations…
  • TRIPs Council To Examine GI Extension, TRIPs-CBD Relationship, Protection Of TK
    TRIPs Council To Examine GI Extension, TRIPs-CBD Relationship, Protection Of TK In spite of the increasing number of developing country proposals on a range of issues concerning the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), negotiations in Doha focused mainly on just one: public health (see BRIDGES Daily Update No. 4, 13…
  • FAO International Undertaking Finally Adopted
    FAO International Undertaking Finally Adopted After seven years of difficult negotiations, the revised International Undertaking (IU) — now International Treaty (IT) — on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) was finally adopted by the Conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 3 November, making it the first binding international instrument…
  • Mexico Biodiversity Project Cancelled Following NGO Criticism
    Mexico Biodiversity Project Cancelled Following NGO Criticism The US government on 9 November confirmed that the controversial Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG-Maya) project on drug discovery, medical ethnobiology, biodiversity inventory, and sustainable development among the Maya of Highland Chiapas, Mexico, has been cancelled. The project, one of a series co-sponsored by three…
  • EU Resists Biotech Discussion In SPS Committee
    EU Resists Biotech Discussion In SPS Committee At the meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) on 31 October to 1 November, the US and Canada strongly criticised Europe’s continued de facto moratorium on the approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in place since 1998. The EU reacted evasively to the…
  • In Brief
  • In Brief
    CBD ADVISORY BODY DISCUSSES FOREST TRADE. At the seventh meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-7) (12-16 November), discussions focused mainly on forest and to some extent agricultural biodiversity. The deliberations on forest biodiversity covered a broad range of issues including trade, illegal harvesting,…
  • Events
  • Resources
    For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/html/calendar.htm. 19-24 November, Bangkok, Thailand: FISH FOR PEOPLE. Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security in the New Millennium, organised by the ASEAN-South East Asian Fisheries Development Centre (SEAFDEC). For further information, contact…
  • Resources
  • Resources
    If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BRIDGES staff to hbaumuller@ictsd.ch. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact mgalvin@ictsd.ch). HARD FACTS, HIDDEN PROBLEMS: A REVIEW OF CURRENT DATA ON FISHING SUBSIDIES.…