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An Action Plan against wildlife trafficking was presented in February 2016 focusing on greater enforcement, better cooperation and more effective prevention, and including measures to strengthen the EU's contribution to global efforts.

6.1. (...) The reforms set out in the SCAPP include most of the recommendations in the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS).
There are three main messages in the DTIS update: (i) Mauritania should build on its recent macroeconomic progress to break away from its current economic model, which is based on unsustainable revenue from the country's national resources, and make a shift towards a strategy for inclusive green growth; (...)

The Subcommittee on Regulatory and Institutional Reform has three working groups including inter alia the green innovation working group (dealing with environment and energy), also re-examining relevant regulations to promote recycling rare metals

Part of the Masdar initiative is Masdar City, the world’s first carbon neutral, zero waste city completely powered by renewable energy. Masdar City will become a blueprint for cities around the world striving for sustainability and intends to attract international businesses, academics, entrepreneurs and advocates. Eventually growing to over 50,000 residents, Masdar City will test the boundaries of current and future thinking in sustainable design.

The third National Development Plan (NDP3) 2007/08-2011/12 and the long-term Vision 2030 are being implemented with the support of international institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank in order to, among others, reduce poverty, create employment, promote economic empowerment, stimulate sustained economic growth, reduce inequalities in income distribution, reduce regional development inequalities, promote gender equality and equity, enhance environmental and ecological sustainability, and combat the further spread of HIV/AIDS.

The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, as well as parallel Agreements on Labour Cooperation and the Environment, received Royal Assent on June 29, 2010

During the formulation of PENX 2025 (…) new strategies conducive to sustainable exports were devised.

Table 2.1 Trade related laws and regulations published since 2005
Area (Section of the report): Electricity (4.3.3)
Instrument/text: Law No. 12 2015 of 11 May 2015 on electricity generation using renewable energy
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As a Small, Open, Vulnerable Economy, Grenada is constrained in its development by a number of factors, which taken together challenge the country in implementing its WTO obligations, particularly as it relates to the creation of new institutions and in competing effectively in a liberalized trade environment. These include: susceptibility to natural disasters; (…)

(…) The United States remains committed to working with its trading partners to create a global trading system in which intellectual property is protected, innovation is promoted, agricultural and industrial regulations are based on science, transparent rules and regulations are applied without discrimination, and high environmental and labor standards are respected.