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ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME - A THREAT TO OUR FUTURE. Debbie Banks, Charlotte Davies, Justin Gosling, Julian Newman, Mary Rice, Jago Wadley, and Fionnuala Walravens. Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), October 2008. In this new briefing paper, EIA calls on governments, police forces, customs, and United Nations agencies to recognise organised environmental-crime as a serious, time-critical problem, and work together to mount a substantial, committed, and sustained global response. The EIA, which has exposed environmental crime using undercover methods for more than 24 years, claims that environmental-crime networks are becoming more organised and sophisticated. These environmental crimes include the illegal trade in wildlife, smuggling of ozone-depleting and global-warming substances, illicit trade in hazardous waste, illegal fishing, illegal logging, and the associated trade in stolen timber. http://www.eia-international.org/files/reports171-1.pdf
LINKING EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEMES FOR INTERNATIONAL AVIATION AND MARITIME EMISSIONS. Erik Haites. Climate Strategies, October 2008. This working paper assesses potential links of trading schemes established for international aviation and maritime emissions. The paper calls attention to emissions caused by aviation and shipping and analyses possible policy solutions. It makes the case for a global emissions trading regime and makes recommendations on how this system could be instituted. http://www.joanneum.at/climate/linking
PUBLISH OR PATENT? KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION IN AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY. An Michiels and Bonwoo Koo. International Food Policy Research Institute, September 2008. This paper discusses the recent trends in plant transformation research by examining patent and journal publication data during the last decade. The data analysis shows that there have been significant shifts toward applied research by developing countries and toward patenting as a means of knowledge dissemination during the past few decades, reflecting the increasing role of the private sector in developing countries in crop improvement research. http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/dp/ifpridp00795.asp
THE BALI ACTION PLAN: KEY ISSUES IN THE CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS: SUMMARY FOR POLICY MAKERS. Environment & Energy Group, September 2008. The summary is designed to provide policy makers with key background information – and important insights into current proposals under negotiation – on the four Bali Action Plan building blocks (i.e., mitigation, adaptation, technology, and finance) and land use, land-use change and forestry. http://www.undp.org/climatechange/documents.html
SUSTAINABILITY PURCHASING TRENDS AND DRIVERS. Coro Strandberg and Amy Robinson. Sustainability Purchasing Network, November 2007. This paper documents the trends and drivers for sustainability purchasing, including green, ethical and social purchasing, globally and in Canada, and considers multi-lateral and regulatory developments that are advancing sustainability in the marketplace. Two case studies of firms integrating ethical and environmental performance standards in their procurement programs are provided as examples of sustainable purchasing in practice. http://www.corostrandberg.com/pdfs/SPN-IC-sustainabilityPurchasingTrendsUpdated%20Paper%20082.pdf
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