The paper Trade and Climate Change: Policy and Economic Implications for South Africa is a scoping assessment of the inter-relationship between international trade and climate change negotiations as it affects policy development in South Africa.
The paper International Trade Governance and Sustainable Transport: The Expansion of Electric Vehicles has been conceived as an exploratory scoping exercise intended to identify and better understand trade-related issues and knowledge gaps, including how various types of trade measures and policies affect the electric vehicle industry and its value chains.
The paper How Regulation and Standards Can Support Social and Environmental Dynamics in Global Value Chains locates standards (economic, social, health, and environmental) as a means to achieve sustainability goals within a global value chain (GVC) approach to introduce dynamism and the potentially contradictory impact of chain power dynamics on sustainability goals.
This policy brief is the first in a series on the circular economy and Canada. It provides an introduction to the circular economy concepts and landscape, geared towards for both government and business audiences.
Based on a review of existing subsidy obligations and tabled negotiating proposals, the objectives of the paper Options for Improving the Transparency of Fisheries Subsidies are to identify the common elements of additional fisheries-related information proposed for new notification disciplines and discuss the feasibility of requiring all WTO members to provide this information.