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UNCTAD study shows trade’s untapped potential in climate action
… energy, enhancing energy efficiency and promoting green value chains. While direct trade policies like tariffs and … equipment like solar panels and wind turbines. Green value chain development: Aiming to reduce greenhouse gas …
Meeting
Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Economic Environment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development, and the Promotion of Economic Integration and Cooperation, first session
… in specific tasks or components of a multitude of value chains, starting at the relatively accessible bottom and steadily upgrading to higher value adding activities. However, as documented in the Trade … of a positive association between participation in global value chains and industrialization is weak. Many countries in …
Press Material
UN Trade and Development calls for sustainable and equitable strategies to mitigate digital economy’s growing environmental impact
… Developing countries are pivotal in the global supply chain for transition minerals and metals, which are highly … for resource-rich developing countries if they can add value to extracted minerals, utilize proceeds effectively and diversify within the value chain and other sectors. Amid current global crises, …
Meeting
National validation workshop: Ethiopia’s transport sector
… Transport sector value chain analysis study and the COVID-19 impacts and responses … to measure the contribution of services to regional value chains (RVCs) and to explore the value added by …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
ECOSOC FfD Forum 2024: Panel Discussion 5 on International Trade as an Engine for Development
… reasons behind these trends: The expansion of global value chains has slowed down due to trade policy tensions, … in developing countries as it tends to be of higher value added and thus offers more opportunities for upgrading, … an opportunity, countries need strategies to enhance local value addition, especially in downstream activities. …
Meeting
Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Economic Environment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development, and the Promotion of Economic Integration and Cooperation, fifth session
… developing countries as they climb the ladder along global value chains will be examined, and the risks related to … offered by regional trade agreements and regional value chains, and the role that regional development finance … exposed profound fault lines in the functioning of global value chains. How can this window of opportunity be exploited …
Statement from the Office of the Secretary General
Nairobi Forum 2020
… global economic geography with shorter, more regional value chains. The future of trade holds more re-shoring, … is also increasingly wide scope for creating and capturing value through services trade and digitalization, which are … African traders and producers need to capture higher value from more intangible, production processes, closer to …
Official Document
Beyond plastics: A review of trade-related policy measures on non-plastic substitutes
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Mission to unlock Africa's services sector
… game to play a more active role in global and regional value chains. This was the consensus among African countries … that: measure the contribution of services to regional value chains and explore the role of domestic and foreign … necessary skillset to measure and monitor services trade value chains. “Services offer African countries an important …
Meeting
Meeting of maize taders and buyers
… prospects of better integrating into regional and global value chains in the future. As indicated by the national study elaborated by the Project on the maize value chain for export in Lao PDR, a large share of maize is …