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Argentina considers that the G-20's initiatives should neither duplicate nor replace the work being done in other international forums dedicated to specific issues such as, for example, the UNFCCC, where climate change is concerned.

The EC has been including provisions and commitments on implementing social and environmental standards in its contractual bilateral agreements with the view to foster sustainable development.

The share of Switzerland's imports and exports subject to most favoured nation treatment is low (less than 20%) due to the dominance (albeit declining) of the EU in Swiss foreign trade, but also as a consequence of Switzerland's comprehensive network of FTAs with non-EU partners. Most of these agreements have been concluded within the framework of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), supplemented by important bilateral FTAs with Japan and China. Switzerland views the expansion of its FTA network to additional emerging markets positively, but recognizes that diverging economic interests complicate such negotiations. [13]

[13] For example, while Switzerland would like new FTAs to facilitate exports of industrial goods and certain services (e.g. financial services and logistical services), strengthen the protection of intellectual property, liberalize government procurement, and focus on sustainable development (e.g. environmental and labour standards), some of its prospective partners would like to focus on significantly improved market access for agricultural exports or the provision of services through expanded movement of labour.

The principal WAEMU legislation for agriculture, including livestock-raising, fishing and forestry, is the Union Agricultural Policy (PAU) aiming at making a sustainable contribution to meeting the population's food needs, to its economic and social development and to reducing poverty

Pillar 2 Economics at the service of society
Objective Main policies Main targets
(...) (...) (...)
Stimulate productivity and competitiveness Increase electrical power generation from renewable energy sources from 68.8% to 90% by 2021.
for sustainable economic
growth through redistribution and mutual support. Guarantee an efficient, steady and safe supply of quality energy (...)
from diversified, efficient, sustainable and sovereign sources as an essential component of productive and social Increase the ratio of direct investment in the production sector to non-oil GDP,
in conditions that guarantee the inflow of foreign exchange, clean production processes,
technology transfer and job creation by 2021.

Water is a very scarce resource in Saudi Arabia, yet present technologies make desalination an energy-intensive process, that is why Saudi Arabia is trialling solar photovoltaic powered desalination plants

A forest information system (SIFOR) has been introduced in the Ministry of the Environment and Sanitation in order to improve the management and monitoring of Mali's forest resources

In accordance with the revised Basic Plan for Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas, announced in May 2005, the Government introduced new direct payment assistance to "core farmers" who, among others, must also abide by the "agricultural environmental code" defined by the Government.

(…) China has made positive contributions to the development of South-South cooperation, to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Djibouti has a Fisheries Master Plan and a National Action Plan to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. However, IUU fishing appears to be on a small scale.