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Biodiversity

New UNCTAD tool tracks global trade in biodiversity products

The database will enable policymakers and other stakeholders to accelerate progress towards combating biodiversity loss, which has put 1 million species at risk of extinction.

The heads of UNCTAD and the Commonwealth, Rebeca Grynspan (left) and Patricia Scotland (right), at the Palais des Nations on 31 August 2022.

UNCTAD and Commonwealth Secretariat expand development cooperation

The two organizations will broaden their existing cooperation to promote the ocean economy, curb plastic pollution, support least developed countries, bolster the digital economy and boost gender equality.

A fisherman in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Trade in ocean goods shows resilience, UNCTAD data reveals

A new UNCTAD database provides insight into the ocean economy’s sectors, main players and export opportunities for developing countries as they try to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fishing boats

How marine bioprospecting can spur development in small island states

By Paul Akiwumi, Director for Africa and Least Developed Countries, UNCTAD

Featured podcast

This episode of The Weekly Tradecast explores how blue diplomacy can help protect our ocean with David Vivas, an UNCTAD legal officer working on trade and environmental issues.

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Recent publications

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Blue BioTrade in Grenada: Developing value for the sustainable trade and production of queen conch in the Eastern Caribbean

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Implications of COVID-19 for biodiversity-based products and services, including BioTrade

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Blue BioTrade in Saint Lucia: Developing value for the sustainable trade and production of queen conch in the Eastern Caribbean

Projects

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National Green Export Reviews

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Global BioTrade Facilitation Programme

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Oceans Economy and Trade Strategies

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Green trade for sustainable development in Pacific small island developing States

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Trade and Agricultural Policies to Support Small-scale Farmers and Enhance Food Security

Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution (SMEP)

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Oceans Economy and Blue BioTrade in the Caribbean region

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Fostering Green Exports through Voluntary Sustainability Standards in Developing Countries

Events and meetings

COP27 Side Event: How combatting plastic pollution and illegal traffic in plastic waste can help reduce carbon emissions

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Short Course Trade and the Blue Economy

Workshop on the implementation of priority actions on sustainable trade of swordfish and other longline fisheries under Barbados Oceans Economy and Trade Strategies

Online and in Bridgetown, Barbados

2022 United Nations Ocean Conference side event. Promoting implementation of CITES towards sustainable and traceable ocean trade: Spotlight on the UNCTAD–OECS Blue BioTrade project

Lisbon, Portugal

Documents and publications

Blue BioTrade in Grenada: Developing value for the sustainable trade and production of queen conch in the Eastern Caribbean

Country case study

UNCTAD/TCS/DITC/INF/2022/4 - 13 May 2022

English

Implications of COVID-19 for biodiversity-based products and services, including BioTrade

UNCTAD/DITC/TED/2022/2 - 03 May 2022

English

Blue BioTrade in Saint Lucia: Developing Value for the Sustainable Trade and Production of Queen Conch in the Eastern Caribbean

UNCTAD/TCS/DITC/INF/2022/2 - 26 Apr 2022

English

Substitutes for single-use plastics in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia: Executive Summary

22 Apr 2022

English