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The Trade Department is also working with UNCTAD to develop trade in organic products; this involves promoting sectors based around Malagasy cultivars. The ITC is helping the country to link trade and the environment.

China will help other developing countries to build more than 100 small clean energy projects by 2013, such as small hydropower, solar power and biogas projects

A tax reform proposal is under discussion - the aim of which is correcting environmental and public health imbalances - to promote responsible use of fossil fuels, non-degradable plastics and non-recyclable packaging

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.

Canada is also actively engaged in a number of plurilateral and multilateral initiatives at the WTO.
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Environmental Goods Agreement: Canada is one of 18 WTO members that were participating in negotiations towards a plurilateral Environmental Goods Agreement. Canada remains ready to re-commence negotiations toward an ambitious agreement that would eliminate tariffs on a broad range of environmental goods and help facilitate the achievement of WTO members' green growth objectives.

In addition , Macao, China has also established the “ Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Fund”. The aim of this Fund is to encourage local enterprises and associations to purchase products and equipment that are environmental -friendly, energy efficient as well as water- saving so as to improve the environmental quality of Macao, China and promote the environmental industry development and the appropriate environmental -friendly measures for improving quality of life.

The Commission for the Promotion of Public Private Partnerships established under Legislative Decree No. 143 210 is the agency with responsibility for this new model for joint ventures in Honduras and will manage it as a sustainable development strategy to increase the country's competitiveness. The portfolio of projects rolled out by the Commission includes roads and urban infrastructure, ports, airports, energy, services and mining.

Since being established in 2007, CPAC has been taking stock of the use of pesticides and developing the tools required for registration. CPAC has just finalized an agro- ecological map of the subregion.

Costa Rica supports all efforts to bring the negotiations on fisheries subsidies to a satisfactory conclusion by the end of 2019, (...), with a view to the prohibition of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing and the elimination of subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by 2020. [2]
[2] 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Goal 14.6.

According to the National Strategy for Sustainable forestry Development in the Republic of Macedonia with the Action Plan 2007-2009”, both adopted by the Government, the MAFWE is responsible for creation and implementation of policies and reforms for sustainable management of forest  resources. The state-owned forests cover 90,14% and the private owned forests cover 9,86% of the total forest land. State-owned forest management is carried out by Public Enterprise "Macedonian forests" within which there are 30 branch offices responsible for forest  management, sylviculture, seedling nurseries and a forestation, as well as forest  protection.