This report summarises progress made by the IIED China-Africa Forest Governance Project, and shares insights from project experiences into the state of China’s role in African forest governance and provides suggestions for the next steps in the China-Africa relationship.
The Role of Trade Policy in Enabling the Global Diffusion of Electric Vehicles identifies and explains trade-related issues and knowledge gaps related to the scale-up and global deployment of electric vehicles. This includes the impact of various types of trade and investment-related barriers on electric vehicle supply chains and the role that international trade governance can play in facilitating, or indeed accelerating, a global transition towards electric vehicles.
The aim of this study, Understanding the Global Caviar Market, was to obtain a better understanding of global caviar markets.
Economic diversification could reduce many developing countries' vulnerabilities to climate change measures, by broadening their export basket beyond goods and services from the sectors that may be most affected, such as energy, tourism and agriculture. This paper, Climate Policies, Economic Diversification and Trade, explores two broad areas of policy that may hold some promise, including the global value chains and green industrial policy.
At the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference in December 2017, ministers adopted a Decision on Fisheries Subsidies directing negotiators to continue talks with a view to adopting an agreement by 2019, the year of the next ministerial conference. The ministerial decision also specifically re-commits WTO members to implementing their existing notification obligations in order to strengthen transparency of the subsidies provided to fishing. Reaching a comprehensive and effective outcome will require solutions that respond to the many technical and legal questions the negotiations have brought up.