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2nd Biotrade Congress to focus on potential of biodiversity products for forest preservation
9 Dec 2013
Experts meeting in Geneva will discuss how the sale and trade of goods sustainably harvested from forests, if expanded, may preserve stands of timber as carbon "sinks" and thus mitigate climate change.
Women’s empowerment, modernized farming recommended for Angola
27 Nov 2013
Three UNCTAD meetings on development in Angola called for efforts to upgrade agriculture and to educate and train women to ensure that economic growth leads to broader progress.
National Capacity Building Workshop for Judges in Costa Rica
11 Nov 2013
UNCTAD organised a first training workshop for judges at the Supreme Court of Costa Rica in San Jose on 11 November 2013.
Briefing for Geneva-based diplomats on UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection
8 Nov 2013
UNCTAD has held a briefing for the diplomatic missions in Geneva on the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection, as part of the preparatory process for the seventh UN Review Conference being held in 2015.
Adapting global ports to impacts of climate change - expert collaboration following UNCTAD meeting results in publication of multidisciplinary academic paper
31 Oct 2013
As a concrete follow-up to an UNCTAD expert meeting, a multidisciplinary academic paper entitled: A note on climate change adaptation for seaports: a challenge for global ports, a challenge for global society, has been published.
UNCTAD contributes to African session on consumer protection
30 Sep 2013
UNCTAD has helped to organize an annual conference on consumer protection law enforcement in Africa.
UNCTAD launches Trade and Development Strategy for Comoros
21 Mar 2013
The strategy, developed in partnership with the Government of Comoros, focuses on achieving food self-sufficiency, improving the country's access to international markets, and finding the Comoros' place in regional markets.
UNCTAD in joint work on traceability system for snake skins
12 Mar 2013
UNCTAD and the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have held a roundtable meeting, with relevant experts, to prepare a platform for an international traceability system for snake skins.
Strengthening Iraqi trade policy and WTO negotiations
18 Feb 2013
UNCTAD and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are working as a team to help Iraq set astute trade policy and carry out effective trade negotiations.
Deputy Secretary General discusses competition policy with President of Ukraine
31 Jan 2013
UNCTAD Deputy Secretary General Petko Draganov headed a group of competition experts at a 29 January meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych.