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Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/239; WT/TPR/S/239 G-IV§119; S-IV§38 Papua New Guinea 2011 Sectors Forestry
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Forest concessions (timber permits) are issued formally by the Minister of Forestry, based on the PNGFA's recommendations and input from the National Forestry Board in order to prevent illegal logging
Keywords
Bio
Environment
Forest
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/S/254 G-VI§337-339, 342; S-IV§46, 51, 53 Ecuador 2011 Sectors Manufacturing
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The Automotive Complementary Agreement between Ecuador, Colombia, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela prohibits the import of used motor vehicles and parts, in order to guarantee among other things environmental conservation, while the National Financial Corporation granted preferential credit loans (not exceeding 9.8%) to consumers, in order to trade older vehicles for newer, more environmentally friendly, ones
Keywords
Conservation
Energy
Environment
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/275; WT/TPR/S/275/Rev.2 G-V§130, 142; S-II§38 United States of America 2012 Trade Policy Framework
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The USAID's West Africa Cotton Improvement Program (WACIP) is designed to help achieve various objectives, including reduction soil degradation and expand the use of good agricultural practices; and improve the enabling environment for agricultural biotechnology
Keywords
Bio
Environment
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/251; WT/TPR/S/251/Rev.1 G-IV§40-41; S-IV§1, 48-59, 61-62 Guinea 2011 Sectors Fisheries
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Even though the 1985 Code already provided for "optimum exploitation to prevent over-exploitation", fisheries resources have not been the subject of any strictly applied rules and illegal fishing by foreign trawlers is rapidly leading to the depletion of stocks
Keywords
Conservation
Environment
Fish
Natural resources
Sustainable
Wildlife
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/221 G-III§78; S-I§5, 18 Maldives 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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In March 2009, the President unveiled a plan to make Maldives the first carbon-neutral country by virtually eliminating the use of fossil fuel by the year 2020 and putting in place a new renewable electricity generation and transmission infrastructure with 155 large wind turbines, half a square kilometre of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plant burning coconut husks.
Keywords
Bio
Renewable
Climate
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/214; WT/TPR/S/214/Rev.1 G-III§51; S-IV§19, 22 European Union 2009 Sectors Agriculture
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On November 2008, the EU Council of Ministers (Agriculture) agreed on a compromise over a range of measures (e.g. the Health Check of the CAP reform) aimed at introducing some necessary adjustments to the 2003 CAP reform, thus allowing it to better response to the new challenges and opportunities, including climate change, the need for better water management, the protection of biodiversity, and the production of green energy.
Keywords
Bio
Climate
Energy
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/240; WT/TPR/S/240/Rev.1 G-III§57-58; S-IV§2; S-IV§108-109 Democratic Republic of Congo 2011 Sectors Mining
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Under the new Mining Code, exploration permits are granted to persons who can show that they have an environmental mitigation and rehabilitation plan
Keywords
Environment
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/236; WT/TPR/S/236/Rev.1 G-II§30; S-III§84 Burkina Faso 2010 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences
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Import and/or export prohibition maintained on, among others, environmental protection grounds in compliance with WAEMU rules
Keywords
Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/214; WT/TPR/S/214/Rev.1 G-III§60; S-II§59-60 European Union 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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The EC launched negotiations for a region-to-region Association Agreement with the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) and with Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) in 2007, with the objective to foster, inter alia, sustainable development.
Keywords
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/256; WT/TPR/S/256/Rev.1 G-IV§71; S-IV§27-28 Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of 2011 Sectors Fisheries
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The Government of Saudi Arabia has undertaken a number of coastal environment rehabilitation projects, including the replanting of mangroves on both coasts and the release of sea bream and grouper fry to restock, since the General Environmental Law and its implementation procedure require environmental impact assessment studies for all coastal and marine projects, and periodical monitoring as well as rehabilitation of the polluted area
Keywords
Environment
Fish
Pollution