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The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
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China is believed to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …
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resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
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China's actions in limiting the export of rare earths have drawn the world's attention. The United States, Japan and … broader backdrop of international economic transition in a mineral-hungry world. Such issues of mineral export restraints are … multilateral negotiations, the developed world will attempt to bring the issue of export restraints under multilateral mandates …
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Trade is a tool to increase human welfare and development, but is increasingly being harnessed also to achieve broad environmental and social sustainability. This paper evaluates the modern relationship between trade and distribution of wealth, on the one hand, and trade and sustainable...
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Beginning in the mid-1990s, Cuba embarked upon a transformation of the agricultural sector that has been hailed by some observers as a model of socially equitable and ecologically sustainable agriculture. Cuba shifted from an export-oriented, chemical-intensive agricultural development strategy...
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developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …
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, particularly to achieve the SDG-2. There are, however, some perceptions that rules of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO …
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From its initial focus on minimizing waste generation, the circular economy has evolved into a broad-based approach to make resource use more sustainable. A big part of the appeal of a circular economy is the opportunities it creates not only for resource savings and better human health and...
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International legal mechanisms in trade dispute resolution, such as the instruments of the WTO, must now, more than ever, take into consideration a wider range of interests that may very well complicate procedural aspects of the rule of law in trade disputes. Institutions such as these must...
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