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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
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Conservation
Environment
Forest
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/271; WT/TPR/S/271 G-B-I§3; G-B-III§102; S-B-IV§412-413 East African Community (EAC): Burundi 2012 Sectors Services
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On 9 April 2011, the Government adopted a national strategy for the sustainable development of tourism during the period 2011-2020 offering a development framework for the planning, improvement, promotion and management of the tourism sector to be implemented by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Posts and Tourism, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/214; WT/TPR/S/214/Rev.1 G-III§70, 76; S-II§68-9 European Union 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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The “GSP+” arrangement aims at providing an incentive to vulnerable developing countries to ratify and effectively implement internationally agreed standards on sustainable development and good governance.
Keywords
Sustainable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/237; WT/TPR/S/237/Rev.1 G-VI§45; S-IV§28 Sri Lanka 2010 Sectors Agriculture
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Exports licensing requirements apply on a limited number of agricultural products on environmental, genetic and endemic plant preservation grounds
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Conservation
Environment
Genetic
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/213; WT/TPR/S/213/Rev.1 G-III§50; S-IV§49, 51 Fiji 2009 Sectors Energy
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Objective of the Government are to improve the national energy mix from 40% of renewable energy to 50% for the grid and from 5% to 10% for off-grid electricity by 2011, and to have 30% of fuel used in transport from biofuel, Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by 2010.
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Bio
Energy
Renewable
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/217; WT/TPR/S/217/Rev.1 G-III§30; S-III§52 Morocco 2009 Measures Ban/Prohibition, Import licences
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Under multilateral agreements such as the CITES or the Basel Convention, products, waste and/or species of wild fauna and flora are subject to a permit, certificate or export ban.
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Waste
MEAs
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/250; WT/TPR/S/250/Rev.1 G-III§33-35; S-IV§21-26 Mauritania 2011 Sectors Fisheries
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Although the Government has declared sustainability to be a concern since 1998, up until now Mauritania has opted in favour of income from fisheries by selling licences to foreign fleets, thereby contributing towards intensified exploitation of its resources rather than to developing better integrated fishing on a smaller scale, although Mauritania has also undertaken to implement international regulations against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
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Fish
Eco
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/227; WT/TPR/S/227/Rev.1 G-III§53; S-IV§66 Croatia 2010 Sectors Services
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The standards with respect to environmental protection have been improved in all transport sectors according to Croatia's transport policy objective
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Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/216/Rev.1; WT/TPR/S/216/Rev.1 G-III§58-9, 77, 85, 88; S-II§30, 36 New Zealand 2009 Trade Policy Framework
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New Zealand's objective is that trade policy, labour policy and environmental policy should, where possible, be mutually supportive and has included trade and labour and trade and environment outcomes in the broad context of all its bilateral and plurilateral FTA agreements.
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Environment
Government TPR; Secretariat TPR WT/TPR/G/222/Rev.1 G-S-II§10 Eswatini 2009 Sectors Energy
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Government is exploring renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar in order to reduce reliance on imported electricity and improve energy security in the country.
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Energy
Renewable