Fisheries
News
WTO Fisheries Subsidies Talks Consider Forced Labor, S&DT
The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group and the Africa Group shared a joint proposal to replace special and differential treatment provisions under the overfishing pillar of the Chair’s text. The
Redirecting subsidies for the good of nature
A lot of money is needed to prevent spiralling biodiversity loss; somewhere between US$598 billion and US$824 billion a year
Sustainable Fisheries Versus Harmful Subsidies: Let’s End the War of Attrition
There is only one month left to fine-tune possible agreements for governments to stop funding overfishing
Reports
Modern slavery and the race to fish (Nature Communications)
A recent paper in Nature Communications shows that there is a substantial relationship between the prevalence of modern slavery in a fishing nation and the amount of unreported (and therefore
Green Industrial Policy: Concept, Policies, Country Experiences (UN Environment/DIE)
The “Green Industrial Policy: Concept, Policies, Country Experiences” report is a joint publication by UN Environment and the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). It illustrates how green industrial
Support to fisheries – Levels and impacts (OECD)
For many years there have been concerns that some forms of fisheries subsidies may complicate sustainable fisheries resources management by promoting overcapacity and overfishing. This OECD paper assesses support to
