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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.

Following initial collaboration in 2012, UNCTAD and the Government of Ghana have continued to work towards strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Ghana and developing an SME and Entrepreneurship Policy.

Initial findings from a new set of national women's entrepreneurship development (WED) assessments show that information and communications technology (ICT) plays an empowering role.

UNCTAD will deliver a distance learning course to lawmakers and government officials from  selected West-African countries on key aspects to be considered for the drafting of e-Commerce laws.

Three hundred trainees have begun their work for an online course that looks in detail at the trade dimension in United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs).​

Representatives of the main stakeholders in the English-speaking network of UNCTAD’s TrainForTrade Port Training Programme have agreed to implement a third cycle of the course.​

UNCTAD and Japanese customs authorities have held a regional seminar for developing countries on rules of origin as they apply to preferential trade arrangements. ​

Eleven managers from the port communities of Walvis Bay, Namibia, have earned the UNCTAD Modern Port Management Certificate.

Twenty-one senior port managers from the French-speaking network of the UNCTAD/TrainForTrade Port Training Programme attended modules 5-8 of the "Modern Port Management" course.

Eighty government officials and private tourism operators have received instruction by UNCTAD on how to practise sustainable tourism that contributes to economic development. ​