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CTE Informals: Africa Group Calls for New Environment Expert Group; Brazil Details 'Request-Offer' Approach for Environmental Goods Liberalisation
An informal meeting of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) special (negotiating) session gathered from 5-6 May. Participants held discussions on the relationship between existing WTO rules and specific trade obligations (STOs) set out in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) as per Paragraph 31 (i) of the Doha Declaration, as well as the environmental…
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Brazil Concerned Over Trade-Distorting Biofuels Criteria
The development of sustainability standards for biofuels is turning into a bone of contention between trade partners. The EU process for defining sustainability criteria is progressing at a slow pace. Brazil, meanwhile, is becoming increasingly vocal in its objections against any criteria that might pose trade barriers. An EU working group has been set up…
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UN Liability Regime on Biosafety Challenged
In Brief International rules on biosafety have been threatened by global biotech companies, Friends of the Earth International warned as an international meeting on the topic opened on 12 May. According to the environmental group, six companies are seeking to reduce the effectiveness of key decisions on global rules to deal with damage caused by…
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Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar, http://www.trade-environment.org/page/calendar.htm. Coming up in the next two weeks 12-17 May, Mexico City, Mexico: CODEX COMMITTEE ON FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (14TH SESSION). Organised by the Food and Agricultural Organisation. Internet: http://www.fao.org/events/index.asp…
- Resources
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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 Bridges staff to Malena Sell at msell@ictsd.ch. "China’s booming economy is sparking and accelerating biological invasions" in BIOSCIENCE 58 (4, 2008). By Jianqing Ding, et al. China has undergone…