{"id":484,"date":"2016-06-22T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:51:24","slug":"6-1-negotiating-mandate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/6-process\/6-1-negotiating-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"6.1 Negotiating Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most governmental systems, the ministry responsible for negotiating the RTIA will be given a mandate by the relevant organ of government. In order for the negotiators to draft an agreement that respects the environment and promotes a green economy, they will need instructions to that effect built into their mandate. Such instructions may come in ad hoc form, specific to each RTIA, or they may exist as a standing order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most governmental systems, the ministry responsible for negotiating the RTIA will be given a mandate by the relevant organ of government. In order for the negotiators to draft an agreement that respects the environment and promotes a green economy, they will need instructions to that effect built into their mandate. Such instructions may come<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/6-process\/6-1-negotiating-mandate\/\" title=\"Read6.1 Negotiating Mandate\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":124,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"0"},"class_list":["post-484","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/toolkits\/sustainability-toolkit-for-trade-negotiators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}