Lamy highlights environment dimension of the trade talks
11 May '06
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Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his remarks to the Commission on Sustainable Development on 10 May 2006, urged WTO members to pursue “more forcefully” the environment dimension of the Doha Round.
He said that “negotiations on the trade liberalization of environmental goods and services, as well as on the relationship between WTO rules and multilateral environmental agreements, could have a positive impact on the energy sector”.
Sustainable development must become a key driver of energy policy. Evidence of the environmental damage that our current energy policies are causing is mounting every day.
The Artic Climate Impact Assessment report has given us important indicators of the rate at which are our climate is changing.
The report notes that in the Artic Sea, summer ice has decreased by nearly 27 percent in the past 50 years, in part, due to global warming. Moreover, the rate at which we have been losing Artic ice has accelerated by some 20% in the past 30 years.
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