High level meeting to discuss services reforms and negotiations for development in Sub-Sahara Africa
Press Contact: Kiranne Guddoy, kguddoy@ictsd.ch
NAIROBI, KENYA - The workshop “Positioning services reforms and negotiations for development” will bring together experts and policy makers from national governments, Regional Economic Communities (REC), the private sector and other non state actors throughout Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) for a comprehensive overview of the various efforts to reform and integrate services [...]
Proposed Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement Gets Traction at Copenhagen Meet
The first gathering of the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) announced the launch on Wednesday 12 October of a number of public-private collaborative initiatives, including the pursuit of an international agreement aimed at ensuring policy frameworks that enable trade in sustainable energy goods and services.
Initiated and hosted by the Danish government, the gathering brought together [...]
‘Greener’ farm subsidy policy could lower EU output capacity, but distort trade - study
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Press Contact: Jonathan Hepburn
T: +41 22 917 87 56; jhepburn@ictsd.ch
Geneva, 11 Oct 2011
New ‘greening’ measures in the EU’s proposed €418-billion post-2013 farm policy could lower the bloc’s agricultural production potential by raising farm input costs by €5 billion, or around 2 percent, a new study reveals.
The draft paper, written by Prof. Alan Matthews [...]
Import-substitution in green energy initiatives: Justifiable on climate grounds?
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For immediate release, 20 July 2011
Geneva, Switzerland – Buy-local requirements in green energy promotion with a double aim to tackle carbon emissions and stimulate local manufacturing and job creation could run afoul of WTO rules, a new study by ICTSD finds. The first ever climate change-related WTO dispute started today in full, with the [...]
US ethanol subsidies inflating maize prices by 17% in 2011 - study
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Jonathan Hepburn
Tel: +41 22 917 87 56
jhepburn@ictsd.ch
Geneva, 22 June 2011
US ethanol subsidies inflating maize prices by 17% in 2011 - study
With record food prices and volatile markets topping the agenda for the 22-23 June summit of G-20 agriculture ministers, a new study finds that US ethanol subsidies may have artificially inflated maize [...]