WTO members considered five regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the 14 November meeting of the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements. Members were also asked to reflect on how to improve the work of the Committee.
During the first week of the UN Climate Change Conference the ILO launched a bold partnership to accelerate green job creation for youth, as well as the Just Transition Finance Tool on Banking and Investment Activities and opened the Just Transition (...)
A side event at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on 10 November organized by the WTO and other international organizations focused on ways sustainable trade can address the specific challenges of developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) in their transition towards (...)
Members of the WTO met informally on 10 November to exchange views and ideas on their reform interests and expectations how their work should be organized. Ambassador Didier Chambovey of Switzerland, the chair of the General Council, said the engagement of members was constructive and hoped (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the WTO will hold on 16 December 2022 a joint technical symposium on “COVID-19 Pandemic: Response, Preparedness, Resilience”. The event will take place in hybrid form at WIPO (...)
At a high-level forum held on the sidelines of the COP27 in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt on 9 November, WTO Director General Okonjo-Iweala highlighted the need to develop climate-smart policies to promote international trade and investment in mitigation and adaptation projects. She added that (...)
Despite the progress made in the last decade, there are still large regulatory and enforcement gaps in maternity protection, leaves, and child and elderly care in the countries of the region.
A key commitment from the WTO’s Fisheries Subsidies Agreement has now been made effective. Specifically, the WTO Fisheries Funding Mechanism envisioned in that Agreement is now operational and ready to accept donations to support developing and least-developed countries in implementing the WTO’s (...)
An effective strategy for tackling global warming cannot be successful without governments taking into account the important role of trade in meeting climate goals, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on 8 November. She was speaking at a high-level event with world leaders during the (...)
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala participated on 8 November in a high-level event with world leaders at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, where a call was made to mobilize USD 12.5 billion over five years to support Africa’s transition to greener economies and climate adaptation. The DG called (...)