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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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 [...]
Better targeted EU farm subsidies could help poor country farmers - study
Linking EU farm subsidies to goals such as environmental protection could help farmers in poor countries, a new study says - although much would depend on the size of the payments and how they are made.
The analysis, conducted by Professor Alan Matthews for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, shows that new proposals [...]
New Study Outlines How to Reconcile Trade and Climate Change Goals at COP16
Cancun, Mexico, 8 December 2010 - A new study launched today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16), From Collision to Vision: Climate Change and World Trade, will form an integral part of today’s symposium organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Cancún, Mexico. In the study, the Working Group [...]
New trade safeguard only partially shields poor farmers, study finds
A controversial new tool to safeguard poor countries from surges in farm imports or price depressions would only provide partial protection to poor producers, a new study finds.
Exporting countries have repeatedly warned that the proposed ’special safeguard mechanism’ could block any growth in trade resulting from market opening under the WTO Doha Round of trade [...]