Negotiators beat low expectations in Cancun by forging agreement on several steps that will advance international co-operation on climate change.
At the start of the negotiations, which ran from 29 November to 10 December, positions on future obligations were...
Beyond Doha Round technicalities, the broader economic debate is focused on ‘rebalancing’ trade, access to resources and stabilising food prices.
The final communiqué of the G-20 summit in June was replete with references to ‘more balanced growth’ and...
Wrapping up the stock-taking week in March, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy indicated that the membership was “not where we wanted to be by now.” The goal of concluding the negotiations this year was quietly buried, and no new deadline was set. The WTO chief...
Two events of importance to sustainable development advocates took place at the close of the year 2009: the long-delayed WTO ministerial conference and the Copenhagen climate summit.
The overarching theme of the seventh WTO ministerial conference was ‘no...