The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will launch its Industrial Development Report 2011 (IDR), Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation: capturing environmental, economic and social dividends at ODI in London on 27 March. The report contains a remarkable quantity of good news.
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The European Union’s communication on trade, growth and development, launched on 27 January, sets the framework for its actions on trade and development in the coming decade.
The co-chairs of the UN Rio+20 ‘Earth Summit’ Preparatory Committee have released a zero draft outcome document entitled ‘The future we want’. This 19-page document opens with the vision and renewal of political commitments on sustainable development, followed by a discussion of the major themes of the conference (a green economy and institutional framework), and a framework for action.
While Pascal Lamy continues to describe the Doha Development Round as ‘deadlocked’, the rest of us are still waiting for the official pronunciation of its death. After three days of deliberations at the latest WTO Ministerial Conference, there remained little light at the end of the tunnel.
Trade ministers will convene in Geneva this week to consider the next steps along the long road of the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization negotiations that were launched in 2001. The mood has been bleak for some time. The Doha Round is moribund.
