Over the last few years, several new trade-related initiatives designed to slow deforestation associated with the trade of ...

Agricultural commodity exports are driving deforestation around the world, spurred by consumer demand and directed by ...

Negotiators from 12 government members (“Parties”) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet ...

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

Whether we like it or not, globalisation is here to stay. Despite the World Trade Organization's (WTO) slow crawl, companies and consumers will increasingly and inexorably cross their own borders to ...

Whether there should be a federal farm income safety net, and more precisely what form it should take, are timely questions as Congress prepares to write multi year legislation to replace the 1996 ...

The 2004 Sri Lanka Supreme Court judgment on a controversial Water Services Reform Bill opened the way for civil society to engage with the water authorities have developed a new National Water Policy ...

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the health risks from the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in many plastic and children's products, highlights the ...

An assessment of the current political, ecological and economic challenges facing family forests.

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...