PRADOPOLIS, Brazil, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- It makes no sense for countries to adopt ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while continuing to apply high tariffs on clean technologies that can be instrumental to achieve reduction goals and allowing fossil fuels to be traded freely.

LONDON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company today announces that it has appointed Mr.

PARIS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - While Some States Envisage a "New Approach" to Resume the Doha Round, the Theses and Figures Put Forward by Pascal Lamy were Contested at the end of the International Workshop Organized at the Sorbonne on June 4th and 5th by momagri's Head Economist Bertrand Munier, University Professor and Chief Economist at momagri, stated at the end of this workshop: "agricultural price volatility, the impact of speculation and the progress made in understanding agricultural markets, questions the WTO's liberalization strategy on agricultural markets." (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081013/324331 ) Thus, the thirty economists present from the IMF, FAO, World Bank, OECD, American universities, think tanks, and different government departments, have reached a general consensus on two main points: - the international community's long sidestepping of the issue of the volatile prices of staple agricultural products, could

The volume of world trade will likely fall 9 percent in 2009, the largest contraction in more than 50 years, the World Trade Organization said. In a report due Wednesday, the WTO predicted German exports could fall 10 percent this year, the EU Observer reported Tuesday. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy

The head of the World Trade Organization warned the global financial downturn was throwing economies in the Third World into potentially dangerous disarray. Director-General Pascal Lamy told an audience in London Thursday many developing nations depended on demand for exports of raw materials and agricultural goods, which has been drying up in recent months.