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EU political update: 3 - 7 September 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Australia, Czech Republic, European Union, Global, Ireland, Russia
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  • September 3 2012

On 22 August 2012, Russia became the 156th member of the WTO after 18 years of negotiations

Technology transfer plan

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • February 26 2012

The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Technology Executive Committee agreed February 17 to set out a work plan later this year on the transfer of climate friendly technologies to developing countries

Basel Ban Amendment one step closer to becoming effective

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global
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  • November 23 2011

On October 21, 2011, 118 members of the Basel Convention reached an agreement to unblock the Ban Amendment, an amendment to the Basel Convention that will ban the export of hazardous waste from countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to non-OECD countries

WTO panelists appointed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • October 16 2011

The World Trade Organization appointed three panelists October 7 to rule on a complaint filed by Japan against alleged subsidies in a green energy program in Ontario, Canada

WTO panel to review FIT program in Ontario per Japanese request

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, Global, Japan
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  • July 5 2011

Japan is set to secure the establishment of a WTO dispute panel to rule whether Ontario's Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program aimed at encouraging the development of alternative energies violates global trade rules

United States and others propose to eliminate customs duties on “environmental goods”

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Global, USA
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  • June 1 2010

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen failed to produce a comprehensive global environmental agreement, many countries, including the United States, are promoting less sweeping environmental initiatives upon which consensus may be reached more easily

U.N. members vote to continue trade in bluefin tuna

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Global
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  • March 19 2010

The United Nations (U.N.) has reportedly balked at a proposal to ban the international trade of Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna, an endangered species prized by sushi aficionados

How a U.S. climate change bill could lead to trouble at the WTO

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • March 26 2009

As if legal efforts to address climate change weren’t complicated enough, a recently released study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics warns that U.S. Congressional efforts to reduce climate change could run afoul of international trade rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), leading to years of legal disputes in the World Trade Organization

Draft EU Directive on renewable energy: are the provisions on biofuels compatible with WTO law?

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Global
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  • April 16 2008

On 23 January 2008, the European Commission published a package of climate action and renewable energy measures that are designed to reduce greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions

Intense debate in the WTO committee on barriers to trade on REACH

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Global
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  • March 11 2008

During the Technical Barriers to Trade Committee (“Committee”) meeting on 9 November 2007, the Members of the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) once again expressed their concern over the Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (“Regulation”), commonly known as REACH

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