"The perception promoted by certain political leaders — that if you are concerned about the environment, you are anti-development — is absolutely unfounded."
This paper examines how good regulatory practice provisions are evolving in select key regional trade agreements and provides some policy insights of value for developing countries.
I am pretty accustomed to reading headlines detailing the latest health issues plaguing our freshwater fish. It comes with the territory as an ecotoxicologist working on the health of North America's relatively abundant, but certainly not infinite, freshwater supplies.
Consumers and companies across the planet are increasingly choosing cotton produced in accordance with voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) such as Better Cotton or Cotton made in Africa, according to new research from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
This report presents an evidence based and costed country roadmap for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.
John Ballingall describes the ambitious and progressive environmental conditions of the New Zealand-EU free trade agreement and what these mean for both parties going forward.
This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review dives into topics such as free trade agreements, industrial policy and the new WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement.