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Climate change
World on ‘red alert’ after heat records smashed in 2023, UN agency says
...The World Meteorological Organization sounded a “red alert” on the climate change behind record surface and ocean temperatures, glacial retreat and rising seas during the warmest 10-year period on record...
March 19, 2024
EU economy
EU set to ban forced-labour products with China in its sights
...According to the International Labour Organization, there were 27.6mn people in forced labour in 2021, with 17.3mn in the private sector, 3.9mn exploited by governments and 6.3mn sex workers....
March 5, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
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Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Markets InsightAngel Ubide
Risks grow for investors as a new economic framework emerges
...It was a strategy that blossomed under the World Trade Organization’s rules-based system....
March 12, 2024
InterviewGlobal trade
Green trade rules are ‘biased’, says Indian minister
...Goyal said that other UN institutions were best placed to tackle climate change and labour standards, such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change and International Labour Organization....
February 29, 2024
Letter
Letter: Cutting aid and neglecting peace will not end the migrant crisis
...Filippo Grandi UN High Commissioner for Refugees Amy E Pope Director-General, International Organization for Migration Geneva, Switzerland...
December 27, 2023
UK foreign policy
Labour to seek regular UK access to EU foreign affairs council
...Tory insiders, however, rejected Labour’s analysis that there was insufficient dialogue with Brussels....
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Letter
Letter: WTO and steel sector align carbon counting
...Jean-Marie Paugam Deputy Director-General World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland...
February 16, 2024
Foreign aid
Labour explores stopping ‘raids’ on UK overseas aid budget
...Lisa Nandy, shadow international development secretary, said that if Labour won power it could codify in law the work of the official development assistance “star chamber” committee, which scrutinises spending...
April 20, 2024
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Succession race begins to lead Cern ‘god particle’ research project
...Cern has international co-operation agreements with dozens more nations, including China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and South Africa....
April 2, 2024
Labour Party UK
Labour shadow justice secretary defends UK’s membership of ECHR
...She welcomed the fact Labour’s position had now changed....
April 21, 2024
The Big Read
The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?
...This fear has now driven nine rounds of painstaking international negotiations on the text of the world’s first pandemic treaty, which must be nailed down before the World Health Organization’s decision-making...
April 4, 2024
Trade Secrets
A weak WTO will damage the planet more than it hurts free trade Premium content
...It will have to rely on the momentum from (1) international businesses and (2) free-trading countries doing what they can....
March 4, 2024
Inside Politics
Labour’s promising bridge closer to the EU has caveats
...So Labour’s thinking is shifting....
March 14, 2024
The Big Read
Is the global economy stumbling into ‘the tepid Twenties’?
...In addition, the big increase in the global labour supply seen in earlier decades has waned, leading to upward pressures on costs and prices....
April 19, 2024
Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
Uncertainty dogs the global digital market
...Next week in Abu Dhabi, an unpromising World Trade Organization meeting of ministers will witness a familiar yet peculiar situation....
February 22, 2024
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Airlines
European airlines cut back Asia routes as Gulf carriers offer cheaper flights
...“It is harder for European carriers to compete against the lower costs of operations for some international carriers,” said Edmond Rose, an aviation consultant who works in the Middle East....
April 2, 2024
Trade Secrets
The case for the WTO. (No, really.) Premium content
...It’s got a better logo than most international organisations....
February 26, 2024
UK politics
Labour calls for legal advice on Israel’s conduct in Gaza to be published
...Britain’s Labour party on Wednesday stepped up its calls on the Tory government to publish its legal advice on Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, although the party has not committed to do so if it...
April 4, 2024
Valdis Dombrovskis
Reform the WTO to make it fit for the 21st century
...The writer is EU commissioner for trade Global trade has been a key driver of prosperity and poverty reduction over the past few decades and the World Trade Organization has been at the heart of this....
February 22, 2024
Agricultural commodities
Humanity loves a cup of tea. So where’s the futures market?
...Piggybacking on international trade and colonialism, distinct tea cultures and strains of tea now stretch across six continents....
March 1, 2024
Disease control and prevention
Dispute over genomic databank undermines fight to thwart next pathogen
...World Health Organization member states started the last round of talks on the accord on Monday....
March 18, 2024
Trade Secrets
Biden tries a White House reset on climate and trade Premium content
...In any case, the general tone of international collaboration sounds good, especially compared with the US’s clumsy failed attempts so far to bully and bounce the EU into backing its green steel and aluminium...
April 22, 2024
Trade Secrets
Driving forced labour out of supply chains starts to get serious Premium content
...Oh, yes, and the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting is next week, so a quick note on that. Charted waters assesses the big fall in lithium prices....
February 19, 2024
Coronavirus
Deadline for pandemic treaty accord at risk, officials warn
...Member states received a new draft of the text from the World Health Organization late on Friday, with the last round of talks set to take place at the end of March....
March 11, 2024
UK tax
‘Non-doms’ rush for advice on Labour’s tax reform plans
...“It has been crazy since Monday,” said David Lesperance, founder and principal of international tax advice firm Lesperance & Associates....
April 12, 2024

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