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Briefing Paper
Biodiversity offsets and credits: Key aspects that make them problematic for protecting biodiversity by Fernanda Rojas-Marchini & Rosario Carmona (March 2024)


Global Call for An Equitable Pathogens Access and Benefit-Sharing System in the Pandemic Instrument


Some intellectual property claims related to pathogens that can Cause public health emergencies


TWN Briefings for 13th WTO Ministerial Conference
Abu Dhabi (26-29 February 2024)


The European Union’s ABS Proposal for the pandemic instrument: Backwards in International Solidarity & Excerbates Inequity An analysis by Sangeeta Shashikant
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TWN Dubai News Update
(30 November - 12 December 2023)

Briefing Paper
Risks in trade as a solution for environmental problems by Abhijit Das (November 2023)

Briefing Paper
Amidst a historic debt crisis and increasing global poverty, the IMF and World Bank fail to deliver in Marrakech by Bhumika Muchhala (November 2023)

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Global climate targets: Peaking, emissions reduction and renewable energy by T. Jayaraman & Tejal Kanitkar (November 2023)


Tip the Scale: Equity Front and Center in the Pandemic Instrument (civil society letter to WHO negotiations body co-chairs)

Briefing Paper
Secondary patents threaten access to new TB medicines
by Prathibha Sivasubramanian (October 2023)
TB medicine patent landscape


USITC Report's key highlights support extension of WTO Decision to COVID-19 diagnostics & therapeutics

Briefing Paper
How the US can enforce an "unenforceable" IPEF by Jane Kelsey (August 2023)

Briefing Paper
The US Congress's role in the IPEF and the possibility of a US "certification" requirement before the IPEF enters into force by Jane Kelsey (August 2023)


TWN Submission to the UNFCCC's Standing Committee on Finance on Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement (August 2023)

Briefing Paper
Decoding the IPEF by Abhijit Das (June 2023)


Agroecology: A Transformative Opportunity for Biodiversity and the Rio Conventions

Briefing Paper
Equity assessment of global mitigation pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report by T. Jayaraman, Tejal Kanitkar & Akhil Mythri (May 2023)


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Issue No.358 (2024/1)

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Global order threatened by a retreat from multilateralism

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Last updated on 18 March 2024

Thin and Shallow: Financial Instruments for Biodiversity Conservation and Their Outlook

Climate Change Talks, Dubai (November-December 2023)

Addressing Climate Change in Malaysia: A Critical Perspective on Carbon Pricing (No. 7)

Monopolies on Biologics, including Vaccines: The Case for Reform in Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Regulation

Climate Change Talks, Bonn (June 2023)

A Feminist Social Contract Rooted in Fiscal Justice (No. 3)

The Potential Impact of UPOV 1991 on The Malaysian Seed Sector, Farmers and Their Practices

Climate News Updates, Sharm el-Sheikh (November 2022)

Who benefits from undermining breastfeeding?

Economic Diversification from Oil Dependency: Practice and Lessons from Persian Gulf Oil- Dependent Developing Countries (No. 6)

International Copyright Flexibilities for Prevention, Treatment and Containment of COVID-19

A Deeper Look into the WTO MC12 Package: What is in it for Developing Countries and LDCs?

The Structural Power of the State-Finance Nexus: Systemic Delinking for the Right to Development

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