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Committee on Trade and Environment

Brazil Submission Causes Stir at Informal Environment Session (Bridges Trade BioRes, 5 October 2007)
CTE: No Movement Until Progress on Ag, Industrial Market Access (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 July 2007)
India, Argentina Table New Proposal on Environmental Goods in Doha Negotiations (Bridges Trade BioRes, 22 June 2007)
Environment at the WTO: Members Progress on Information Exchange, Still Stuck on EGS (Bridges Trade BioRes, 11 May 2007)
Environmental Services: EU, Others Reiterate Market Access Request (Bridges Trade BioRes, 11 May 2007)
CTE: Members Discuss Organic Standards (Bridges Trade BioRes, 11 May 2007)
WTO Members Discuss Information Exchange With MEAs (Bridges Trade BioRes, 2 February 2007)
Environment Negotiations Low on Priority List of WTO Members (Bridges Trade BioRes, 19 January 2007)
Members Continue to Debate How to Address Environmental Goods (Bridges Trade BioRes, 14 July 2006)
Developing Countries Present Views On Environmental Goods (Bridges Trade BioRes, 16 June 2006)
WTO: How To Evaluate If A Good Is Environmentally Friendly? (Bridges Trade BioRes, 19 May 2006)
Renewable Energy, Air Pollution, Environmental Goods Considered at WTO (Bridges Trade BioRes, 14 April 2006)
"Step-By-Step" Approach To Environmental Goods Liberalisation Considered (Bridges Trade BioRes, 3 March 2006)
WTO: Environment Chair Submits Draft Text For Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration (Bridges Trade BioRes, 25 November 2005)
WTO Environment Committee Debates Draft Text For Hong Kong (Bridges Trade BioRes, 11 November 2005)
CTE Looks At Approaches To Environmental Goods Liberalisation (Bridges Trade BioRes, 28 October 2005)
CTE Gets Down to Details on Environmental Goods (Bridges Trade BioRes, 16 September 2005)
Developing Countries Give Opinion On Environmental Goods (Bridges Weekly, 13 July 2005)
India's 'Project Approach' Causes Stir At Environmental Goods Talks (Bridges Trade BioRes, 24 June 2005)
Environmental Goods Dominate CTE Agenda (Bridges Trade BioRes, 4 March 2005)
WTO Environment Committee Focuses On Procedural Issues (Bridges Trade BioRes, 21 October 2004)
WTO Environment Committee Makes Slow Progress (Bridges Weekly, 25 June 2004)
WTO Environment Committee Considers Environmental Goods (Bridges Weekly, 30 April 2004)
Brief CTE Meeting Addresses Illegal Logging, Para. 51 (Bridges Weekly, 31 October 2003)
WTO Environment Committees Stuck On Role Of MEA Secretariats, Eco-Labelling (Bridges Weekly, 10 July 2003)
MEA-WTO Relationship: Debate Matures, No Solution Yet (Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest, 7 May 2003)
WTO Environment Committee Allows Ad-hoc Attendance To MEA Secretariats (Bridges Weekly, 19 February 2003)
Trade, Environment Officials Progress On MEA-WTO Links (Bridges Trade BioRes, 21 November 2002)
Top-Down Or Bottom-Up? WTO Members Deliberate How To Address WTO-MEA Relationship (Bridges Trade BioRes, 24 October 2002)
WTO Environment Committee Stalls On MEA Observership, TRIPs-CBD (Bridges Trade BioRes, 27 June 2002)
WTO Environment Committee Focuses On MEA-WTO Relationship (Bridges Trade BioRes, 13 June 2002)
WTO Environment Committee Begins To Tackle Doha Environment Mandate (Bridges Trade BioRes, 4 April 2002)

Disputes

WTO Panel Rules Against EU Import Ban in Beef Hormone Dispute; Both Sides Claim Victory (Bridges Trade BioRes, 4 April 2008)
Environmental Groups Submit Amicus Brief in Brazil-Tyres Case (Bridges Trade BioRes, 19 October 2007)
Canada Launches Trade Dispute over European Seal Products Ban (Bridges Trade BioRes, 5 October 2007)
US Says European Aviation Emissions Trading Scheme to End Up as WTO Dispute (Bridges Trade BioRes, 5 October 2007)
Seal Hunt Lands at WTO (Bridges Trade BioRes Review, 7 September 2007)
EU Appeals WTO Ruling in Retreaded Tyre Dispute with Brazil; NGOs Protest (Bridges Trade BioRes Review, 7 September 2007)
Brazil Loses Used Tyres Dispute (Bridges Trade BioRes, 22 June 2007)
Brazil Calls WTO Ruling in Retreaded Tyres Dispute 'Favourable' (Bridges Trade BioRes, 11 May 2007)
WTO Interim Panel Ruling Favours EU in Retreaded Tyres Dispute with Brazil (Bridges Trade BioRes, 16 March 2007)
US Releases Draft Farm Bill; Trading Partners Challenge Corn Subsidies (Bridges Trade BioRes, 2 February 2007)
EU Releases First Submission in Tyres Dispute, Civil Society Weighs In (Bridges Trade BioRes, 14 July 2006)
Brazil Files First Submission In WTO Retreaded Tyres Case (Bridges Trade BioRes, 16 June 2006)
Final WTO Biotech Panel Report Maintains Verdict Against EU (Bridges Trade BioRes, 19 May 2006)
WTO Appoints Panel Members In Retreaded Tyre Dispute (Bridges Trade BioRes, 17 March 2006)
WTO Panel Created On EU-Brazil Retreaded Tyre Dispute (Bridges Trade BioRes, 3 February 2006)
WTO Hormones Dispute Focuses on Procedural Issues (Bridges Trade BioRes, 16 September 2005)
Beef Hormones Dispute: WTO Opens Proceedings To Public (Bridges Trade BioRes, 2 September 2005)
EU’s GMO Approval Moratorium Challenged (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 7, Number 4, May 2003)
US ‘Dolphin Safe’ Tuna Label Back in Court (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 7, Number 1, January-February 2003)
Dolphin--safe Standard Shows Limits of US Multilateral Environmental Co-operation (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 5, Number 6, August 2001)
Panel Stresses Multilateral Environmental Agreement as Permanent Solution to Shrimp Turtle Dispute (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 5, Number 5, June 2001)
Asbestos Ruling Breaks New Ground in ‘Like Product’ Determination (Editorial, BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 5, Number 1-3, January-April 2001)
The Swordfish in Peril: the EU Challenges Chilean Port Access Restrictions at the WTO (By Marcos Orellana Cruz, BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 4, Number 6, August 2000)

Services

EC, Others Table Request For Liberalisation Of Environmental Services (Bridges Trade BioRes, 3 March 2006)

NAMA Negotiations

WTO: New Mechanism Proposed To Deal With NTBs (Bridges Trade BioRes, 19 May 2006)

WTO: Proposals Tabled On Forest Tariff, Non-Tariff Barriers To Trade (Bridges Trade BioRes, 28 April 2006)

WTO Members Table Forest, Fish Liberalisation Proposals (Bridges Trade BioRes, 17 February 2006)

WTO Members propose enhanced liberalisation of forest and fish sectors (Bridges Trade BioRes, 28 October 2005)

NAMA Negotiations Threaten Environment, NGO Says (Bridges Trade BioRes, 29 April 2005)

WTO Market Access Group Deliberates Negotiating Approach (Bridges Weekly, 17 July 2003)

Other WTO News

Developing Countries: Mounting Support for TRIPS Amendment to Protect Biodiversity (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 March 2008)
Rough Sailing for Fisheries Subsidy Talks (Bridges Trade BioRes, 8 February 2008)
China under Fire at WTO for Limiting Exports of Natural Resources (Bridges Trade BioRes, 19 October 2007)
WTO: Doha Round Going Into Hibernation? (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 July 2007)
WTO Review: Illegal Logging Continues to Plague Indonesia (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 July 2007)
'Disclosure Group' Gains Ground at WTO TRIPS Council (Bridges Trade BioRes, 22 June 2007)
Members Remain Undecided on Key Fisheries Disciplines (Bridges Trade BioRes, 22 June 2007)
Doha Round Negotiations Officially Re-launched (Bridges Trade BioRes, 2 February 2007)
Doha Round Talks Resume in Geneva (Bridges Trade BioRes, 1 December 2006)
Vietnam Set to Enter the WTO, Implement New Environmental Measures (Bridges Trade BioRes, 1 December 2006)
WTO Members Agree in Principle to Extend Conflict Diamond Waiver (Bridges Trade BioRes, 1 December 2006)
World Trade Report: Using Subsidies to Achieve Policy Objectives (Bridges Trade BioRes, 28 July 2006)
WTO Doha Round Put On Hold Indefinitely (Bridges Trade BioRes, 28 July 2006)
Mutual Supportiveness Of WTO, CBD A "Slight Problem": Lamy (Bridges Trade BioRes, 2 June 2006)
Environment @ Hong Kong: Momentum On Fish, Little Progress Otherwise (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 January 2006)
Commentary On The WTO Ministerial Meeting by Doeke Eisma and Pieter van der Gaag (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 January 2006)
Hong Kong Ministerial Adopts Declaration, Talks To Continue (Bridges Trade BioRes, 20 January 2006)
Environment @ Cancun (Bridges Trade BioRes, 5 September 2003)
WTO Negotiations Speed Up In Lead-up To Cancun (Bridges Trade BioRes, 25 August 2003)
Trade and Sustainable Development: Time for a Fresh Start in Johannesburg (Editorial, BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 6, Number 6, Post Johannesburg Summit Issue, June 2002)
From Doha to Johannesburg: Who Will Decide Our Common Future? (Editorial, BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 6, Number 3, March/April 2002)
Trade Issues Central to Sustainable Development Summit (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 6, Number 2, February 2002)
Renato Ruggiero on Trade and Sustainable Development (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 5, Number 9, Post-Doha Ministerial Issue, December 2001)
Environment: A Potential ‘New Beginning for the World trading System? (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 5, Number 9, Post-Doha Ministerial Issue, December 2001)
Environment Makes Its Way Onto The WTO Negotiating Agenda (Bridges Trade BioRes, 22 November 2001)
Trade and Environment Après-Seattle (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 4, Number 1, January - February 2000)
Sustainable Development and WTO Transparency Likely to Be Backburner Issues, (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 3, Number 8, Pre-Seattle Ministerial Issue, November 1999)
Update on Sustainable Development Assessments of the WTO Seattle Round (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 3, Number 7, September 1999)
G-7/G-8 Endorse Trade-Environment Link, Adopt Debt Relief Initiative Summit (BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 3, Number 5, June 1999)
WTO Holds First-ever High-level Meetings on Sustainable Development But Environment and Development Agendas Still Don’t Mesh (Editorial, BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 3, Number 2, March 1999)
WTO Condemns US Shrimp Ban, Recommends Negotiated Solutions to Conserve Sea Turtles (Editorial, BRIDGES Monthly Review Year 2, Number 5, April-May 1998)

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