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| UNCTAD/ TED Palais des Nations, CH - 1211 Genève 10, Suisse trade.environment@unctad.org tél +41 (0)22 917 1330 Terms & conditions Privacy |
| *Expert Meeting on Green and Renewable Technologies as Energy Solutions for Rural Development* | ||
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| *Launch of UNCTAD's Trade & Environment Review 2009/2010* | ||
Trade & Environment Review 2009/2010: Promoting poles of clean growth to foster the transitionto a more sustainable economy8 Feb 2010 UNCTAD´s Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010 focuses on promoting poles of clean growth to foster the transition to a more sustainable economy in developing countries that enhance resilience to the inter-related economic, food and climate crises. more... |
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| *Berlin launching workshop for the UNCTAD TER 2009/2010 * | ||
| Sustainable Management: Climate-change Mitigation and Resource/Material Efficiency - What is Myth and what Reality? 26 Jan 2010 The UNCTAD secretariat and the Wuppertal Institute on Climate, Environment and Energy organize a launching workshop for the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010 on 26 January 2010 in Berlin. The workshop targets policy makers, business leaders, academics and journalists. more... |
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| *Geneva Expert Meeting* | ||
| Facilitating Access of Small Organic Farmers in Developing Countries to Supermarket Shelves 10-11 Dec 2009 The meeting will bring together representatives of all key stakeholder groups, including producers from around the world, traders, retailers, standard setters and certification bodies to discuss: - practical experiences in production and sales of doubly certified products - the findings of the comparative study; - practical options for achieving partial equivalence between GLOBALGAP and organic certification systems or other arrangements to streamline the certification process at the scheme level for dual certifications; - a roadmap of activities for further development and implementation of such a scheme (e.g. further analysis, field testing and operationalization of equivalence approaches). more... |
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| *CTF in Africa* | ||
UNCTAD contributes to a book on analysis of developmental and market-access impact of private sustainability standards on horticultural exports in Africa.UNCTAD contributes an article on pro-actively complying with private voluntary standards on Good Agricultural Standards: Key findings of country-case studies in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. http://www.agrifoodstandards.net |
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| *Just Published* | ||
World Trade Law and Renewable Energy: The Case of Non-Tariff Barriers Just Published !This study was written by Prof. Robert Howse of the University of Michigan Law School, and edited by Mr. Alexey Vikhlyaev of the UNCTAD secretariat. It �q-considers the question of non-tariff barriers and renewable energy from the perspective of the law of the World Trade Organization. The first part of the study examines whether and to what extent, under the law of the WTO government, policies to promote renewable energy may be disciplined as non-tariff barriers. The second part addresses itself to whether and to what extent WTO law could be used to challenge or discipline policies (regulatory barriers) that disadvantage renewable energy. |
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| *Just Published* | ||
WTO Negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services: A Potential Contribution to the Millennium Development Goals Just Published !This study was written by written by Thomas Cottier, Professor of European and International Economic Law, Managing Director, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland and Donah Sharon Baracol Pinhao, Economist, Master of International Law and Economics, Formerly Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland, and edited by Mr. Alexey Vikhlyaev of the UNCTAD secretariat.. |
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| *Topic in Focus* | ||
Market access is a key issue for developing countries. Developing countries have been concerned that domestic environmental policies
in developed countries may adversely affect market access of products from
developing countries. Producers in developing countries may lack the technical
and financial ability to comply with the environmental regulations of industrialised
nations. A key concern is the extent to which environmental standards and
regulations, as well as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in developed
country markets have the potential to create barriers to trade, particularly
for products exported by developing countries. |
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| *Latest Meetings* | ||
| Date | Location | Title | M |
| 20 Feb 2010 | Nuremberg, Germany | Certified Organic plus certified GLOBALGAP: A New Path | More |
| 19 Feb 2010 | Nuremberg, Germany | Africa Symposium, Biofach 2010: Markets as motors for sustainability | More |
| 18 Feb 2010 | Nuremberg, Germany | A Level and Fair Playing Field for Organic Trade | More |
| 15-17 Feb 2010 | Geneva, Switzerland | Seminar on Environmental governance towards Green Economy - Freiburg MSc students visit | More |
| 9-11 Feb 2010 | Geneva, Switzerland | Single-year Expert Meeting on Green and Renewable Technologies as Energy Solutions for Rural Development | More |
| 26 Jan 2010 | Berlin, Germany | Sustainable Management: Climate-change Mitigation and Resource/Material Efficiency - What is Myth and what Reality? | More |
| 10-11 Dec 2009 | Geneva, Switzerland | Facilitating Access of Small Organic Farmers in Developing Countries to Supermarket Shelves | More |
| 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2009 | , Rwanda | Rwandan Organic Stakeholder Workshop | More |
| 18-20 Nov 2009 | Bujumbura, Burundi | Burundi Awareness Raising and Training Workshop | More |
| 6 Oct 2009 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Ethiopian Stakeholder Meeting | More |
| 28 Aug 2009 | Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania | Tanzanian National Stakeholder Meeting | More |
| 27 Aug 2009 | Kampala, Uganda | Ugandan National Stakeholder Consultation on draft organic policy | More |
| 9 Jul 2009 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Ethiopian Organic Forum: Public Private Partnership | More |
| June and Sept 2009 | Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania | Tanzanian Regional Stakeholder Meetings | More |
| 18-22 May 2009 | Kampala, Uganda | 1st African Organic Agriculture Conference | More |
| 26-28 Nov 2008 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Ecological Agriculture: Mitigating Climate Change, Providing Food Security and Self-Reliance for Rural Livelihoods in Africa | More |
| 17-21 Nov 2008 | Abeokuta, Nigeria | First West Africa Summit on Organic Agriculture (1st WASUMMIT) | More |
| 28-31 Oct 2008 | Kuching, Malaysia | Organic ASIA – The Way Forward | More |
| 6-7 Oct 2008 | Geneva, Switzerland | 8th meeting of the UNCTAD/ FAO/ IFOAM International Task Force on Harmonisation and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture | More |
| 24 Sept 2008 | Geneva, Switzerland | Lunchtime Briefing for Geneva-based Delegates in conjunction with the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board | More |
| 22 April 2008 | Accra, Ghana | Making Sustainability Standards Work for Pro-poor Agricultural Development and Trade. UNCTAD XII side event | More |
| 7-9 April 2008 | Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania | Making Sustainability Standards Work for Small-scale Farmers. A Pre-UNCTAD XII Event | More |