Members of the World Trade Organization are negotiating an agreement to reduce harmful fisheries subsidies. Reaching a deal this year would be one of the most important actions that global
15 January 2020: The World Trade Organization resumed talks on fishing subsidies last week. Globally, governments spend an estimated US$35 billion a year on fishing subsidies. About 63% of such
13 December 2019: Dennis Clare, the president of the Institute for Energy and Climate Strategies and an adviser to SIDS at COP25, writes from Madrid that a major stumbling block
New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade launched a video on the “cheapest thing the world could do to reduce climate-change emissions” – phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. David
A new paper on trade-related issues affecting the food and land use systems suggests that in order to reconfigure the global trade in agriculture products, policymakers should remove perverse incentives
Micah Hostetter, from the Energy & Environment Group of Intralink, discusses the next step for China’s environmental industry, focusing on Chinese government spending. Tackling pollution and its impacts has been
This month Chatham House published a paper titled “An Inclusive Circular Economy: Priorities for Developing Countries”, written by Felix Preston, Johanna Lehne and Laura Wellesley. The paper argues how the
On the 30th of April, the chief executives of 107 shipping companies signed an open letter to IMO Member States in support of the proposal to slow down ships to
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