Non-Tariff Regulatory Trade Barriers & Sustainability
WTO Chairs Programme;

(WTO Chair for Brazil)

2016
(​here)/ (here)
Regulatory Barriers to Trade: TBT, SPS & Sustainability Standards (references on pp. 39-41, 106-110, 116, 122)
(here)
(​here)/ (here)
RIO+ Conference on Sustainable Development
​Monitoring Sustainable Development: Contribution of Geospatial Information to the Rio+20 Processes (Background Document, the Secretariat p.35 )
​UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Info. Mgmt. (UNGGIM)
May
2012​
(​here)
Discerning The Forest From The Trees: How Governments Use Ostensibly Private &  Voluntary Standards to Avoid WTO Culpability
NGO
Position Papers
WTO Secretariat
March 2014​
(​here)/(here)
The Precautionary Principle and WTO Law: Divergent Views Toward the Role of Science in Assessing and Managing Risk
European Security and Defense
 Policy
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
2004
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)
(​here)/ (here)
(​here)/ (here)
Aug. 2013​
Select Bibilography
on Settlement
of ​ Disputes Concerning the Law of the Sea
Int' Tribunal on the Law of the Sea
​'ARA Libertad' Case Ruling Suggests Ever-Expanding ITLOS Jurisdiction (p. 50)
(​here)/ (here)
​UNIDO Binas Online
​Biotech Barriers Hurt Poor, Say NFTC
News May 2003
May
 2003
(​here)/(here)
Environmental/ Health Requirements, Market Access and Export Competitiveness - What is the Problem for Developing Countries and What Can Be the Answers? ​(p. 11, fn 41)
Sub-regional Workshop on Environmental Requirements, Market Access, Competitiveness(China, Thailand
the Philippines)
​UNCTAD
Feb. 2004
(here)
​Ducking the Truth About Europe's GMO Policy
​Headlines for Monday, Nov. 29, 2004
​World Bank Group
​Nov. 2004
(here)
​Looking Behind the Curtain: The Growth of Trade Barriers that Ignore Sound Science​ (NFTC#1)
​EU Regulation, Standardization and the Precautionary Principle: The Art of Crafting a Three-Dimensional Trade Strategy That Ignores Sound Science​ (NFTC#2)
​'Enlightened' Environmentalism or Disguised Protectionism? Assessing the Impact of Precaution-based Standards on Developing Countries​  (NFTC#3)
NGO Position Papers

​WT/INF/92

WTO Secretariat​
​May  2005
(​here)/(here)
​Trading Precaution: The Precautionary Principle and the WTO ​(pp. 3, 16)
Report by
Sabrina Shaw

​Risa Schwartz

​UNU-IAS
​Nov. 2005
(​here)
​SCP 16th Plenary Session Geneva
​SCP Sixteenth Session Report (pars. 4, 57, 63, 73, 336, 345, 400, 440, Annex p. 17)
​WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents
​Dec. 2011
(​here)
​SCP Fifteenth Session Report (pars. 4, 34, 43, 55-57, 67, 71, 109, 153, Annex p. 18)
​SCP 15th Plenary Session Geneva
​WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents
 May 2011
Comments on Experts' Study on Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter & Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights (SCP/15/3) ​(pars. 12-14, 50) 
Scope of Patentable Subject Matter & Patent Rights​
​WIPO Secretariat
June
2011​
​Comments on the Report of the International Patent System Received from Members and Observers of the SCP ​(pp. 16-36; 44-46)
WIPO Report
on the International Patent System SCP/12/3/Rev.2
​WIPO Secretariat
March
2011​
(​here)/(here)
​​News Articles on Development Gateway
INFOTERM Newsletter  INL 121/122
-2006
UNESCO/ INFOTERM
July-Nov. 2006
IGWG Public Hearings - Proposals & Recommendations
(p. 14)
​IP and Access to Essential Medicines
​WHO Inter-governmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation & Intellectual Property
Desk Review of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation & Intellectual Property From a Right to Development Perspective
IP and
 Develop-ment
.​High-Level Task Force of UN OHCHR on Implementation of the Right to Development 
March 2009
​Websites on Trade and Environment
Information Sources for Trade and Environment
​UNESCAP Trade & Investment Division
Jan. -March 2007​
Feb. 2007​
​Selected Worldwide Websites as of March 2007; Jan-March 2007 
​Selected Worldwide Websites as of Jan. 2008 
​2011
2007 Annual Index
e-TISNET Information Sources
​UNESCAP Trade & Investment Division
​Jan. 2008
Original Fordham University School of Law draft (here)
​Report on an Analysis of the Economic/Legal Literature on Intellectual Property (IP) Rights: A Barrier to Entry?
​The Role of IP as a Barrier to Market Entry
​WIPO CDIP 
​Jan.
2012
​ITSSD: Americans' Constitutional Rights Will Be Trampled Unless Congress Convenes Public Hearings on the UN Law of the Sea Convention
​UNEP Shelf Program News
UNEP-GRID Arendal Norway
​May 2009
Masters Program: Responsible Management and Sustainable Economic Development​
​Masters Project: Sustainable
Development ​(by Elly Musafiri, National University of Rwanda) (pp. v, 51)
​UPEACE
May 2011​
​Promoting Trade and Investment in Climate-Smart Goods, Services & Technologies in Asia and the Pacific​ (Background Policy Paper authored by Jeffrey Crawford) (pp. 53, 64)
Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific​ ​(2012)
​UNESCAP & Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) 
​2010
​Climate-Smart Trade and Investment in Asia and the Pacific: Towards a Triple-Win Outcome  (pp. 216, Box II.12; 261)
​Climate-Smart Goods & Services
UNESCAP Trade & Investment Division
.Dec. 2011​
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