Environmental Goods and Services
"We recognise that climate change is a growing global challenge and we will ensure that our economic growth strategies are environmentally sustainable. We will use the opportunity provided by our domestic stimulus measures to deploy climate-friendly technologies and encourage energy efficiency. These technologies and efforts can also create new opport...
All Systems Go in the Wind Business
You don’t need to be a weatherman to see which way the wind’s blowing. In the United States, Texas oilman turned wind energy advocate, T. Boone Pickens, is promoting T-bone size wind energy investment as the solution to America’s oil dependency.
In the United Kingdom, in a move described by the British Wind Energy Association chairman as...
The Little Drop That Could
Yes the solar energy industry grew 38% in 2007 and represented $23.1 billion in global revenues, up from $5.5 billion in 2002, but solar power still represents only 0.1% of global electricity generation.
And yes, the stock value of solar energy companies rose 210% in 2007 and venture investing in the sector grew 200% in 2007, but solar power still represe...
"APEC Leaders resolved to reduce by the end of 2015 our applied tariff rates to 5% or less, taking into account economies' economic circumstances, without prejudice to APEC economies" positions in the WTO. Economies will also eliminate non-tariff barriers, including local content requirements that distort environmental goods and services trade. "
“We will implement policies to create new green jobs, technologies, and industries to enhance regional energy security, decrease environmental degradation and the effects of climate change, and promote sustainable growth. We will promote energy-efficient transport. We will increase the dissemination and utilization of environmental goods and services, reduce existing barriers and refrain from introducing new barriers to trade and investment in such goods and services, and enhance our capabilities to develop this sector, by prioritizing work related to addressing non-tariff measures on environmental goods, technology, and services. We will rationalize and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, while recognizing the importance of providing those in need with essential energy services, and review progress toward this goal on a voluntary basis. We will promote deployment of low-emission power sources - renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage - to make our energy supply cleaner. We will create low-carbon communities in the region. We will facilitate the diffusion of climate-friendly technologies, including through ECOTECH and capacity building activities.”
APEC Environmental Goods and Services Information Exchange Prepared by the United States, Canada and New Zealand
An information-sharing community dedicated to the facilitation and promotion of trade and commerce in environmental goods and services in the APE...Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Australia and Japan Proposed Activities on Environmental Goods The 2008 APEC Ministerial Meeting (AMM) endorsed the Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) Framework for the development by the 2009 Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) of a concrete EGS...Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Submitted by Singapore
AIM
This paper seeks CTI's endorsement on a work programme framework for environmental goods and services (EGS) in APEC.
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