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20 December 2017
Energy dual pricing has been a contentious topic in the WTO for decades, but now the focus is on its harmful environmental effects. Dual pricing encourages wasteful consumption of fossil fuels and displaces cleaner sources of energy. There are several ways in which the WTO can and should contribute...
8 December 2017
African countries concluded an intense month of talks as part of the negotiating process towards the establishment of the Continental free trade area (CFTA), with the fourth Meeting of African Ministers of Trade (AMOT) taking place on 1-2 December in Niamey, Niger. The meeting was preceded by...
7 December 2017
International agencies and farm leaders have welcomed the decision to launch a work programme on climate and agriculture, which was endorsed by governments at the annual conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) three weeks ago in Bonn, Germany. Language in the preamble...
30 November 2017
Sixteen years ago, WTO members kicked off the Doha Round of trade negotiations, also known as the Doha Development Agenda , with the goal of rewriting global trade rules in a way that creates better conditions for developing countries to play a greater role in world trade. Although WTO members...
30 November 2017
A coalition of developed and developing economies is expected to unveil a declaration in Buenos Aires outlining several steps they plan to take over the coming two years towards incorporating a gender lens into their approaches to trade and development policy. The declaration from this WTO member...
30 November 2017
Although not currently a negotiating item, an effort to advance discussions in the WTO context on reforming fossil fuel subsidies is underway. An informal group of non-G20 countries known as the “Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform” (the Friends”) has prepared a statement to this end, which is...
28 November 2017
The African Group at the WTO has tabled last week a draft ministerial decision on e-commerce to be considered by WTO members ahead of the organisation’s Eleventh ministerial conference (MC11), which will be held on 11-13 December in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the run-up to MC11, e-commerce and...
23 November 2017
A landmark agreement to phase down climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will enter into force on 1 January 2019 after passing the ratification threshold on 17 November. Sweden helped cross this threshold by becoming the...