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India’s Khullar says Trade and Environment Should Not Mix
India’s chief WTO negotiator has spoken out against the possibility of bringing border carbon adjustments (BCAs) into trade talks at the WTO. Without providing specifics, Rahul Khullar, India’s commerce secretary, said that efforts are being made to bring environmental issues through a “back door” into multilateral trade talks and that India is against such a…
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De Boer Steps Down as UNFCCC Chief
Yvo de Boer announced his intention to resign from his position as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last Thursday. His resignation will take effect on 1 July. After leaving the UNFCCC, de Boer says he will continue working in his area of expertise, joining the Swiss consultancy group KPMG as…
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Environmental Goods attract Renewed Engagement at WTO
Engagement on environmental goods at the WTO is at a three year high, according to a source with knowledge of the 18-19 February special session of the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE-SS). The engagement was spurred by a flurry of new proposals that had been put forward previously by Argentina including on specific products…
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Chinese Forest Product Exports Surge over Past Decade
China has moved from being a modest player in the world’s forest products markets, to one of the leading exporters of manufactured forest products over the past ten years, according to a new joint study by the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to the study, entitled “The…
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Development Activists take Aim at EU Renewable Energy Targets
The EU’s ambitious goal of sourcing 10 percent of its transport fuel needs from renewable sources by 2020 could lead to widespread famine in the developing world, according to a new report by UK-based development organisation ActionAid. The report accuses the EU of inadvertently incentivising biofuels companies to push food producers off of agricultural land in…
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Events
For a more comprehensive list of events for the trade and environment community visit the BioRes online calendar, http://ictsd.net/news/biores/events/. Coming up in the next two weeks (19 February - 5 March) 21-27 February, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY-BASED ADAPTATION. Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) recognises that communities already possess much of the…
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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 BioRes staff to Andrew Aziz at aaziz@ictsd.ch. LABELING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD IN INDIA: ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES IN FOUR MARKETING CHANNELS. IFPRI Discussion Paper by Sangeeta Bansal and Guillaume Gruère, January…