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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/246; WT/TPR/S/246/Rev.1 G-II§82; S-II§29-30 Canada 2011 Trade Policy Framework
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Canada has submitted or co-sponsored communications in various DDA negotiating groups, including trade and environment
Keywords
Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/257/Rev.1; WT/TPR/S/257/Rev.1 G-IV§;45 S-III§36; Table III.5 Nepal 2011 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences
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The Export and Import Control Act 1957 provides that the Government may impose import and export restrictions or prohibitions for the objectives of protecting national security, maintaining public morals, conserving exhaustible natural resources (in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption), and ensuring the availability of raw materials essential for domestic processing industries with potential for competitive capacity
Keywords
Conservation
Natural resources
Climate
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/240; WT/TPR/S/240/Rev.1 G-III§69; S-IV §1; S-IV§67 Democratic Republic of Congo 2011 Sectors Forestry
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Under the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offers an enormous carbon credit market potential, as the Congolese forest s constitute an important " carbon sink"
Keywords
Clean
Climate
Environment
Forest
MEAs
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/245; WT/TPR/S/245/Rev.1 G-VI§92; S-IV§19, 31 Paraguay 2011 Sectors Agriculture
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Soil conservation and recovery programmes are being maintained, including direct sowing, crop rotation, compost and the use of agrochemicals
Keywords
Conservation
Energy
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/244; WT/TPR/S/244 G-III§64; S-IV§2, 29 Australia 2011 Sectors Fisheries
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A policy has been put in place to address the profitability and sustainability of Australian fisheries by stopping overfishing, allowing overfished stocks to recover, and promoting the longer term profitability of the fishing industry as well as by preventing, deterring and eliminating illegal fishing and unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing
Keywords
Fish
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/214; WT/TPR/S/214/Rev.1 G-II§15; S-IV§4, 74 European Union 2009 Sectors Energy
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The 2007 Spring European Council committed to transform Europe into a low carbon economy with secure, sustainable and competitive energy, and it agreed ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency and boost the use of renewable energy by 2020 (a 20% reduction in GHG emissions, a 20% share for renewables in final energy consumption - including 10% share of bio fuels in road transport in each Member State - and a 20% saving in future energy demand by 2020 compared to the baseline projection).
Keywords
Bio
Emissions
Energy
Renewable
Sustainable
Climate
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/273; WT/TPR/S/273/Rev.1 G-II§37-38; S-III§32; Table III.3 Iceland 2012 Measures Not specified
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A new environmental tax was levied on liquid fossil fuels in 2010 in relation to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (2.6-3.1 ISK per litre), while excise duties on various motor vehicles have been lowered on low emission vehicles, but increased on higher emission vehicles
Keywords
Emissions
Environment
Climate
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/270; WT/TPR/S/270/Rev.1 G-III§24; S-III§49; Table AIII.1 Bangladesh 2012 Measures Ban/Prohibition
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Restricted items are importable subject to the conditions specified in the Order, which take the form of non-automatic import licences and authorizations, for environmental reasons, among other reasons
Keywords
Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/220; WT/TPR/S/220/Rev.1 G-II§44-5; S-II§41; S-IV§63 Chile 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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Within the context of the Doha Development Agenda negotiations, Chile is advocating the introduction of WTO disciplines that specifically address the problems of distortion relating to fisheries subsidies and to this end it has submitted several negotiating proposals, individually or jointly with other WTO Members.
Keywords
Fish
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/274; WT/TPR/S/274/Rev.1 G-IV§120; S-II§89; S-IV§40-44 Nicaragua 2012 Sectors Forestry
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Presidential Decree No. 69-2008 approved the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Nicaragua's Forestry Sector with the aim of, inter alia, formulating and implementing financing mechanisms for the forestry sector such as the development of markets for payment of wood land-related environmental services, including the promotion of reforestation, the creation of forestry plantations and the promotion of sustainable management initiatives for forestry and agroforestry ecosystems in line with Law No. 462, Law on the Conservation, Promotion and Sustainable Development of the Forestry Sector
Keywords
Conservation
Environment
Forest
Sustainable