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… international agreements. measures risk negative effect global climate environment clean energy expensive … fossil fuels clean energy, compromising domestic global climate goals. objective paper initiate discussion … industry, dependant specialization, skills global chains hampers developments urgently needed environment. …
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Trade Policy Framework: Tunisia - Implications of Participation in the Information Technology Agreement of the World Trade Organization
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… Global fishing fleets, powered mainly by fossil fuels such as marine diesel, emit between 0.1% to 0.5% of global carbon emissions, or up to 159 million tons annually, … and expanding their delivery infrastructure. From a trade, value chain and infrastructure point of view , the report …
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… in the labour market Our focus areas include: Trade, global value chains and employment Employment and the trading system …
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… IN UNEMPLOYMENT Marco Fugazza UNCTAD, Geneva éline Carrè Global Studies Institute - University Geneva Ferdi Marcelo … aggregate shocks affect unemployment countries year, global technological shocks. estimated coefficients …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Trade and Development Board, seventieth session: High-level segment
… my heart. Around 3 billion people, or 40 per cent of our global population, reside near coastlines. Our oceans are … be worth at least $24 trillion. According to UNCTAD, the value of global exports in ocean-based goods and services was … creating low-carbon markets and building resilient value chains. As I pass on the word to our distinguished panelists …
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Building productive capacities can avert a lost decade in the poorest countries
… the international system, triggering an abrupt and severe global recession, which threatens to heighten economic … sectors coupled with weak integration into global value chains also hamper the uptake of new technologies in LDCs. …