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New and Notable

• New Intellectual Property and Access to Clean Energy Technologies in Developing Countries An Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic, Biofuel and Wind Technologies, Issue Paper No.2, By John Barton December 2007.

• New Trade in Environmental Goods and Services and Sustainable Development Domestic Considerations and Strategies for WTO Negotiations, Policy Discussion Paper, ICTSD, December 2007.

• New Climate, Equity, and Global Trade released at Bali, Selected Issue Brief No. 2, ICTSD, December 2007.

• New Bridges BioRes Review, Vol.2, No 1, March 2008.
  

• New Scaling-up Energy Efficiency and Access to Clean Energy Technologies: Options for International Cooperation, organized by ICTSD in collaboration with IEA, UNEP and Danish Ministry of the Environment, 5th December 2007, Bali, Indonesia

• New Towards a Strategy for Sustainable Production and Trade of Bioenergy organized by ICTSD in collaboration with IEA Bioenergy Task 40 and Stockholm Environment Institute, 4th December 2007, Bali, Indonesia

• Intellectual Property and Access to Clean Energy Technologies in Developing Countries - An Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic, Biofuel and Wind Technologies, organised by ICTSD, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October .

• Biofuels as Alternative Energy: a Regional Outlook, organised by ICTSD with CEDA, IIED, FLACSO and the Andean Community Quito, Ecuador, 17-18 October 2007

• ICTSD Cyberlaunch of Bridges Trade BioRes Review and Trade and Environment: A Resource Book, 4 October 2007.

• International Trade, Climate Change and Global Competitiveness, organised by ICTSD, UNEP and The World Bank at WMO, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 October 2007.

• Environmental Goods and Services Relevant for Trade and Sustainable Development, EGS National Workshop for Colombia organized by ICTSD and Fondobicomercio in Bogota, Colombia. 27 September 2007

• Trade, Climate Change and Global Competitiveness Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development in China, organized by ICTSD, ERI, SEPA and the British Consulate General Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 25 September 2007.

• Sustainable Land Management: How Can Trade Help, Not Hinder?, ICTSD side-event at the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 8), 5 September 2007, Madrid, Spain

• Trade and Sustainable Land Management in Drylands, Selected Issue Brief, published by ICTSD, August 2007

• The WTO and Energy: WTO Rules and Agreements of Relevance to the Energy Sector, ICTSD Programme on Trade and Environment, Issue Paper 1, August 2007

• Biotechnology: Eastern African Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Trade Policy, jointly published by ICTSD and the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), June 2007

• Trade and Environment: A Resource Book, edited by Adil Najam, Mark Halle, and Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, June 2007