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17 October 2008
The International Maritime Organisation is debating plans to regulate greenhouse has emissions from ships – a major and growing source to be tackled in the fight against climate change. Meeting from 6-10 October in London, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) 58th session on the Marine...
31 July 2008
Trade ministers at the WTO on 30 July started to pick up the pieces the day after a high-profile summit collapsed without an agreement on world trade. WTO Members expressed a desire not to abandon the Doha Round negotiations, nor to lose the progress they had made towards an agreement on cutting...
30 July 2008
Governments' latest attempt to salvage a deal in the Doha Round of trade talks broke down on Tuesday, as ministers acknowledged that they were unable to reach a compromise after nine days of a high-level summit at the WTO. The multilateral negotiations now face an even more uncertain future,...
29 July 2008
Meeting for the eighth straight day, trade ministers at the WTO agreed Monday night to keep discussing thorny issues that continue to block potential agreements on liberalising trade in agricultural and industrial goods. "The situation is very tense," the WTO's chief spokesman, Keith Rockwell, said...
28 July 2008
From bananas and cotton to trade preference erosion and liberalisation for tropical products, officials at the WTO on 27 July addressed a range of issues in the Doha Round talks that will need to be resolved alongside higher-profile differences on tariff and subsidy cuts if governments are to...
27 July 2008
WTO Members on 26 July gave mixed reactions to a package of compromise parameters for tariff and subsidy cuts tabled by Director-General Pascal Lamy the day before. Most agreed that it could serve as a starting point for discussions aimed at framework Doha Round agreements on agricultural and...
26 July 2008
Despondency and bitterness gave way to guarded optimism at the WTO on Friday, as prospects for breakthrough agreements on agriculture and manufacturing trade brightened significantly during the fifth day of a high-level summit in Geneva. By the end of the day on 25 July, an accord at least seemed...
25 July 2008
The next 24 hours will determine whether governments can rescue WTO talks from the brink of collapse, officials said Thursday evening. A crucial day lies ahead for the ongoing attempt to strike framework deals on liberalising agricultural and industrial trade. Discussions have been largely...
24 July 2008
Seven of the world's largest trading powers emerged front and centre in the struggling talks at the WTO on Wednesday, meeting all afternoon and late into the night in an attempt to find a way out of the impasse in governments' push for breakthrough deals on agricultural and industrial goods trade...
23 July 2008
With little discernible progress on the second of what is supposed to be six days of high-level talks at the WTO, Director-General Pascal Lamy unexpectedly changed the negotiation process on Tuesday, dropping a planned 'green room' gathering in the hopes that issue-specific meetings among smaller...
22 July 2008
A week of high-stakes talks is underway at the WTO, as governments attempt to salvage a deal in the struggling Doha Round of trade negotiations. But the first day of the 'mini-ministerial' gathering was marked principally by political positioning, with the real horse-trading yet to begin. Members...
21 July 2008
Trade ministers from some three dozen nations are gathering this week at WTO headquarters in Geneva in an attempt to strike breakthrough deals on liberalising agriculture and manufacturing trade that would make it possible to conclude the Doha Round negotiations in the foreseeable future. Their...
