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International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
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Climate Change Governance

In Landmark Shift, New UN Work Programme to Address Agriculture Emissions Under Climate Action Framework

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...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Agriculture Talks Intensify as Buenos Aires Ministerial Approaches

23 November 2017
As trade talks in Geneva enter the final stretch, WTO negotiators have tabled new proposals on agriculture for the Buenos Aires ministerial that begins in just over two weeks. They have also put forward suggestions for a work programme to deal with unresolved topics after the conference takes place...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Negotiations: Members Debate New Farm Trade Proposals on Domestic Support, Transparency

9 November 2017
Over the past fortnight, a series of WTO members have put forward new proposals involving different aspects of the agriculture talks, including on trade-distorting domestic support, public stockholding for food security purposes, and on the quality and enforcement of notification requirements. In...
GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
E15Initiative

Looking for a Permanent Solution on Public Stockholding Programmes at the WTO: Getting the Right Metrics on the Support Provided

26 October 2017
Franck Galtier
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Conference Chair Malcorra Urges Members to Prepare for Post-Buenos Aires Work

26 October 2017
Susana Malcorra, the Argentine minister who will chair the WTO’s upcoming ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, told negotiators in Geneva last week that fisheries subsidies and agriculture remain high on the agenda for the December meeting, while reminding them that issues that do not yield...
WTO MC11 (BUENOS AIRES 2017)

WTO Agriculture Negotiators Weigh New Proposals as Buenos Aires Meet Approaches

19 October 2017
A slate of new negotiating proposals on farm subsidies and cotton reflect different views on how to balance ambitious demands with realism in the run-up to the WTO’s eleventh ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this December, trade sources have said. As negotiators prepare to meet...
10
OCT
2017
09:00

Climate Change and Clean Energy Technologies - Policy Options for the Global Trade and Investment System

Organised by
ICTSD & ERCST
Brussels, Belgium
26
SEP
2017
15:30 - 17:00

The Role of SDGs in Setting the Trade Agenda: Towards Buenos Aires and Beyond

Organised by
ICTSD
WTO Room S3, Geneva
22
SEP
2017
08:30

Disciplining Fossil Fuel Subsidies for Climate Mitigation and SDGs: A Job for the Trade System?

Organised by
ICTSD, NYU
New York City, USA
WTO Negotiations

WTO Farm Talks Chair Maps Progress Ahead of October Mini-Ministerial

21 September 2017
The Kenyan ambassador who chairs the WTO’s negotiations on agriculture has issued a new informal paper mapping the “state of play” in the talks ahead of a ministerial-level meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, in early October. Trade sources told Bridges that the Marrakesh meeting will be key in...
WTO Negotiations

WTO Farm Talks Chair Urges Members to Accelerate Work for Buenos Aires Ministerial

27 July 2017
Governments must “significantly accelerate” their work on farm trade topics ahead of the WTO’s eleventh ministerial conference in Buenos Aires this December, says a new report from the chair of the agriculture negotiations, Kenyan ambassador Stephen Karau. The report, prepared for a negotiating...
2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

Agenda 2030: High-Level Forum Reviews Progress on Poverty Eradication Goal

27 July 2017
Ministers and top officials from UN member states signed off on a declaration last week aimed at advancing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on the theme of “eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world.” The declaration...
Agriculture

EU, Brazil Call for New WTO Rules on Farm Subsidies, Food Security

20 July 2017
The EU, Brazil, and three other Latin American countries have tabled a new proposal on farm subsidy reform for negotiation ahead of the WTO’s eleventh ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this December. Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay also co-sponsored the proposal, which was submitted...
WTO Negotiations

WTO Agriculture Negotiators Review Buenos Aires Ministerial Options

8 June 2017
The chair of the WTO agriculture negotiations, Kenyan Ambassador Stephen Karau, has suggested that farm trade talks on domestic support may need to continue beyond the organisation’s eleventh ministerial conference, scheduled to take place this December in the Argentinean capital of Buenos Aires...
WTO Negotiations

Farm Exporting Countries Outline Agriculture Negotiating Ideas for WTO Ministerial

24 May 2017
The Cairns Group of agricultural exporting countries has called for action on farm trade issues for the WTO’s upcoming ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this December, tabling an informal paper that notes “overwhelming” support for an outcome on agricultural domestic support. The...
Oceans

Fisheries Subsidies in the Spotlight Ahead of UN Ocean Conference

4 May 2017
Preparations are underway for the high-level UN Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, co-hosted by the governments of Fiji and Sweden and set to coincide with World Oceans Day 2017 in June. The 5-9 June event will be the first SDG-specific conference...
WTO Negotiations

New Chair of WTO Agriculture Negotiations Restarts Talks

27 April 2017
Kenyan Ambassador Stephen Karau told WTO members on Wednesday 26 April that he would seek to pick up talks on agricultural trade from where they had left off, in the first negotiating session he convened as the new chair on the topic. WTO members agreed on 7 April that Karau would take over the...
WTO

Kenyan Ambassador Will Chair WTO Farm Trade Talks, Governments Agree

13 April 2017
Governments agreed on Friday 7 April that the Kenyan Ambassador to the WTO, Stephen Karau, will chair negotiations on agricultural trade issues at the Geneva-based organisation, breaking months of deadlock over who should take on the role. Karau was confirmed alongside other trade officials taking...
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APR
2017
11:57

Agricultural Domestic Support Negotiations: Options for a MC11 Outcome

Organised by
ICTSD
Geneva, Switzerland
Agriculture

Uncertainty Over WTO Negotiating Chair Overshadows Farm Trade Talks

30 March 2017
A continued disagreement among governments over who should chair the WTO’s farm trade negotiations overshadowed talks in the global trade body’s regular committee on agriculture this week, sources said. New Zealand Ambassador Vangelis Vitalis, who was appointed to chair the farm trade talks in...
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