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Rene Vossenaar

Independent Consultant

René Vossenaar formerly worked with UNCTAD as Head of the Trade, Environment and Development Branch. After his retirement in March 2005, he has occasionally worked as an independent consultant. He prepared several studies for ICTSD on linkages between the deployment of climate-friendly technologies and international trade, in particular on the renewable-energy supply, buildings and transport sector. He also contributed a paper on climate-related single-use environmental goods. Before joining UNCTAD, he worked for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires and Brasilia. Following his retirement he lives in Brasilia, but he spends part of the European Summer in the Geneva area.

Research

Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)

Reducing Import Tariffs for Environmental Goods: The APEC Experience

28 September 2016
Rene Vossenaar
Renewable Energy

Recent Developments in Trade and Tariffs in Renewable Energy Goods in Latin America and the Caribbean

30 June 2016
Rene Vossenaar
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)

Identifying Products with Climate and Development Benefits for an Environmental Goods Agreement

28 November 2014
Rene Vossenaar
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)

The APEC List of Environmental Goods: An Analysis of the Outcome & Expected Impacts

15 June 2013
Rene Vossenaar
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)

Deploying Climate-Related Technologies in the Transport Sector: Exploring Trade Links

17 November 2010
Rene Vossenaar
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)

Deploying Climate-Related Technologies in the Transport Sector: Exploring Trade Links

29 October 2010
Rene Vossenaar
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)

Climate-related Single-use Environmental Goods

10 September 2010
Rene Vossenaar
Renewable Energy

Deploying Energy-Efficiency and Renewable-Energy Technologies in Residential and Commercial Buildings: What are the Trading Opportunities for Developing Countries?

6 July 2010
Rene Vossenaar, Veena Jha
Renewable Energy

Technology Mapping of the Renewable Energy, Buildings, and Transport Sectors: Policy Drivers and International Trade Aspects: An ICTSD Synthesis Paper

4 June 2010
Rene Vossenaar, Veena Jha

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Environment
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Volume 10 - Number 2

Опыт АТЭС в снижении импортных тарифов на экологические товары

22 April 2017
Как экономикам-участницам АТЭС удалось провести снижение тарифов на экологические товары? Какие подходы они применили для выделения товаров, имеющих экологическую направленность? Автор описывает опыт АТЭС, который может использоваться в других переговорах по либерализации тарифов. В последние годы...
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)
Puentes
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Volume 15 - Number 10

El Acuerdo sobre Bienes Ambientales y sus beneficios climáticos

9 December 2014
En julio del presente año, un grupo de 14 miembros de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) comenzaron las negociaciones plurilaterales destinadas a lograr el “libre comercio global” en una amplia gama de bienes ambientales. En una declaración conjunta , los participantes dijeron que los...
Environmental Goods and Services (EGS)
Biores
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Volume 8 - Number 10

Securing climate benefits
 in the Environmental Goods Agreement

27 November 2014
Shifting to a cleaner energy mix is essential to limit the far-ranging consequences of climate change caused by ballooning greenhouse gas emissions. Trade policy can play an important role in this transition but a number of challenges will need to be addressed in a future Environmental Goods...

Analysis | Liberalising Trade in Single-Use Climate-Related Environmental Goods

10 September 2010
Larger deployment of climate-friendly technologies and products offers the potential for environmental, developmental and trade gains. Yet building consensus on how the WTO negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) could make the best-possible contribution to harnessing such potential...