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TESCO Pilots Carbon Footprinting Scheme
Tesco, the UK-based global retailer, has introduced new carbon labels on 20 of its products under a new pilot scheme. The scheme seeks to go beyond the simple ‘food miles’ concept by considering the carbon emissions during the full life cycle of selected goods. The first 20 goods include Tesco’s own-brand products in four different categories: orange…
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'Responsible' Soy Stirs Controversy
Stakeholders in the soy business seeking to develop sustainability criteria for their industry have met with tough resistance from civil society groups. Environmentalists choosing to sidestep the multi-stakeholder initiative have called it a ‘greenwash,’ saying that any expansion of soy production would have dire environmental and social consequences and that the only solution is to…
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Calls for Exempting Small-Scale Fishing from Subsidy Rules Divide WTO Members
WTO Members last week disagreed on the extent to which future multilateral rules on fisheries subsidies should include exceptions for payments to the small-scale fishing sector, as Canada and some other developed countries sought controversial exemptions for their own industry. Marine conservation groups said that the exceptions these countries were seeking would undermine the main objective…
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CITES: Technical Committees Progress Work
The Plants and Animal Committees under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) recently met in Geneva, where they successfully completed technical groundwork on politically sensitive issues such as trade in economically valuable timber species. The seventeenth meeting of the Plants Committee (PC17) and the twenty-third meeting of the…
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EU Biodiesel producers launch trade complaint
In Brief The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) has launched a trade complaint with the European Commission, asking for action against US biodiesel exports. On 25 April, the EBB lodged its complaint against unfair subsidised biodiesel exports. Under US support policies, biofuels blended in the US with as little as one percent mineral oil…
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Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar, http://www.trade-environment.org/page/calendar.htm. Coming up in the next two weeks 5-16 May, New York, U.S.:16th SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. This review session at United Nations headquarters will focus on agriculture, rural development, land, drought,…
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Resources
If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the Bridges staff to Malena Sell at msell@ictsd.ch. THE MUTLILATERAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT CONTEXT FOR BIOFUELS. By Sophia Murphy (IIED, 2008). This paper looks at the multilateral trade and investment…