The WTO talks on fisheries subsidies resume with pressure on marine resources and economic inequity on the line
15 January 2020: The World Trade Organization resumed talks on fishing subsidies last week....
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Action for an ocean for all: Rethinking the blue economy to be inclusive, sustainable, fair and for everyone (IIED)
Maggie Watson’s article on the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED),...
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Modern slavery and the race to fish (Nature Communications)
A recent paper in Nature Communications shows that there is a substantial relationship between the...
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40 organizations call on Commissioners Vella and Malmström to uphold subsidies ban on new fishing vessels
13 September 2018 – In a letter, 40 environmental organizations call for the European...
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Fisheries Subsidies Rules at the WTO: A compilation of evidence and analysis (ICTSD)
At the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference in December 2017, ministers adopted a Decision on...
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Overfishing, Overfished Stocks, and the Current WTO Negotiations on Fisheries Subsidies (ICTSD)
The decline of global fish stocks has implications for both the food security and the livelihoods...
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Green Industrial Policy: Concept, Policies, Country Experiences (UN Environment/DIE)
The “Green Industrial Policy: Concept, Policies, Country Experiences” report is a joint...
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Elimination of subsidies would hurt poor fisherfolk in India
8 October 2017 – Efforts at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)-level to eliminate certain...
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WTO working on agreement to eliminate fisheries subsidies
16 August 2017 – The upcoming meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Argentina...
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Support to fisheries – Levels and impacts (OECD)
For many years there have been concerns that some forms of fisheries subsidies may complicate...
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