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(...) Morocco recently adhered to two further OECD instruments relating to business transparency and green growth.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives has the main responsibility for formulating and implementing trade policy, although other ministries involved include the ministries of Animal Industry and Fisheries; and Water and Environment

Government formulated Export Policy 2015-2018 to promote and facilitate export, improve quality of the exportable items, use environment friendly technologies and produce high value added and labour intensive products.(...)

Finally, CEMAC will draw upon the extensive resources of its forests, a major carbon sink preserved thanks to the maintenance of its biodiversity , the generalization of sustainable logging and a comprehensive campaign against the phenomena of degradation, with the participation of the people who live along the fringes of the forest;.

The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) identifies the challenges facing Dominica as those related to accelerating growth in the economy that can be sustainable. The challenges are economic, social, political, and environmental, some of which are beyond the control of Dominica. Dominica continues to be challenged by the global economic crisis, weather systems, and setbacks in foreign investments flows.

The second meeting of the United States-Bahrain Joint Committee (JC), held on October 2009, discussed, inter alia, initiatives to monitor implementation and compliance with the environmental obligations in the US-Bahrain FTA and additional cooperative efforts related to environmental protection

Mozambique acknowledges that sound management of its natural resources and environmental control are essential for Mozambique's sustainable development.

(…) Financial institutions were guided to extend credit support to key industries and sectors, such as railways, shipping, thermal power and steel, in keeping with credit risk management principles and supporting primarily enterprises that are profitable, comply with requirements on environmental protection and safe production and satisfy prudential credit conditions. Financial institutions were encouraged to use credit products flexibly to enhance support for export-oriented enterprises that were able to attract orders, were profitable and met prudential credit conditions; they were also guided to increase credit and financing support to sectors that promoted energy conservation and emissions reduction. To this end, the CBRC promulgated the Green Credit Guide, urging and guiding banking and financial institutions to enhance their support to the green economy (e.g. recycling and low carbon emission activities) and promote sustainable development based on the principles of controllable risks and sustainable business. (…)

After signing NAFTA, the United States, Canada, and Mexico concluded supplemental agreements on labor and environment. Under these agreements, the parties are, among other things, obligated to effectively enforce their environmental and labor laws. The agreements also provide frameworks for cooperation among the parties on a wide variety of labor and environmental issues. In connection with NAFTA, the United States and Mexico also agreed to fund a development bank to address environmental infrastructure needs along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Iceland is actively involved in the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) negotiations among 50 countries to further liberalize trade in services building upon the GATS. As of November 2016, 21 rounds of negotiations had taken place and Iceland had made two conditional offers. These include sector-specific commitments in professional, courier, financial, telecommunications, construction, distribution, tourism & travel, entertainment & sporting, transport, and environmental services.