This book brings together a series of papers identifying opportunities for Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) to attract Foreign direct investment (FDI) that is associated with positive contributions to sustainable development and good corporate social responsibility practices. It points to a number of opportunities for IPAs in attracting FDI with good CSR practices and highlights key leverage points and practical tools to achieve this. It is intended to provide a primer for investment promotion agencies and pointers for approaches that could be deployed in the future.

This paper reports on the multilateral trade and investment context for biofuels. It briefly introduces the context surrounding biofuels and delves into some of the factors driving the rapid expansion in production and use. The analysis looks at trade and investment issues for biofuels, and some of the issues on developing standards. This discussion paper concludes with proposals for how governments, particularly small and medium-sized economies, might develop appropriate trade and investment rules to support a fair and sustainable biofuels sector.

What does it take to put the global energy system on a sustainable path? And how long will it take for the transition to be completed? This report gives some pointers to answer these questions.

The CITES Handbook has been compiled to provide to the Parties to CITES and the wider CITES community the most essential texts for the implementation of the Convention in one single reference publication. It comprises the text of the Convention, Appendices I, II and III, the standard CITES permit/certificate, the Resolutions and the Decisions of the Conference of the Parties to CITES in effect after the 14th meeting (The Hague, 2007). This trilingual edition (English, French and Spanish) exists in CD-ROM only

Profound changes are increasingly occurring in all areas of the world economy. While the industrialized and emerging economies are able to contain the multiple external and internal shocks generated by these changes, Africa on its part is still struggling to cope with them. The analyses reported in the present edition of the Report review the world economy and map out prospects for development in Africa through the institution of structural reforms to diversify and modernize the economy, enhance competitiveness, promote trade, accelerate growth and reduce poverty.

This CD-ROM contains the publication "Multilateral trade negotiations on agriculture - a resource manual". It provides resource material to assist government officials involved in implementing the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements of relevance to agriculture, fisheries and forestry as well as those involved in further negotiations in these sectors.

Mangrove forests provide critical economic, social and ecological services for the existence of biophysical and socio-economic subsystems on earth, particularly for tropical mangroves that are rich in both floral & faunal biodiversity.

The report researches the trade and environmental effects of ecolabels through a literature review and includes five case studies of specific labels.

This report builds largely on presentations and discussions held during a series of regional workshops on reforming energy subsides, organised jointly by UNEP and the International Energy Agency (IEA) in 2000 and 2001. The workshops were largely financed by voluntary contributions for Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

This introductory training module is designed to support capacity building for trade, environment and sustainable development and is part of UNEP's larger initiative for capacity building on integrated policy design and implementation.

In the following chapters, the question of sustainability and potential use of a fund to promote sustainability will be analysed in detail. The different analytical steps will include the following. 1. Identification of the issues of sustainablilty to the mining sector 2. Analysis on the regional level 3. Recommendations for activities of the fund 4. Examination of the financial base of the fund

There has been an increasing interest and concern over the potential positive and negative impacts of trade liberlization, particularly on the environment and social fabric of developing countries where trade has grown most rapidly. The countries were chosen on the basis of ensuring a diversity of experiences as well as a capacity to implement these studies. A useful addition to the country studies is the case of China where economic openness is relatively recent, and which is related to entry into the WTO

The application of structural adjustment policies in Argentina in the 1990s had a series of strong impacts on the economic structure of the country. The positive impacts caused by structural changes created conditions that encourage growth in the fisheries sector. This report addresses several issues, such as the social, economic and environmental impacts of trade liberalization in the fisheries sector in Argentina in the 1990s

In China, the specific policy studied is that of import liberalization rather than export expansion. The study examines the impact of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on the production and import of selected agricultural products. The environmental, social and economic effects are largely imputed through changes in production and consumption structures.

The international trade in bananas is one of the most import economic activities for Ecuador, and is very significant in terms of labour and use of natural resources. Given that bananas have become one of the most controversial commodities within the emultilateral trade system in recent years, Ecuadorian policy making and current and future negotiations must focus on achieving better conditions for the Ecuadorian people.

The issue of environmental management has assumed a worldwide dimension, cutting across both developed and developing nations, and necessitated by the impacts generated by diverse social and economic activities, including global trade. This study attempted to assess the degree of the impacts of trade liberalization and trade-related policies on the environment, and consider the linked social and economic effects using the cocoa sector and rubber sub-sector for the case study.

Fishing is an essential component of rural development in Senegal. It is a multipurpose activity strongly integrated with the rest of the Senegalese economy and society. Fishing plays a strategic role in ensuring the sustainable growth of the national economy.