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• RGE Wednesday Note – The Economics of Copenhagen

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 155
  As global leaders begin meeting in Copenhagen to craft a new climate change deal, we take a look at what sort of deal might emerge, what different countries are bringing to the table and the likely economic costs of such a deal. This piece is excerpted from a longer piece, “ The Economics of Copenhagen ,” ...
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• APEC and community-building in the Asia Pacific

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Author: Andrew Elek on behalf of the Australian Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (AUSPECC) On December 4-5, 2009, the Australian Government convened a ‘one-and-a-half track conference’ of prominent government officials, academics and opinion makers. In this week’s digest , Peter Drysdale reports on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thinking about the Asia Pacific Community

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Authors: Hadi Soesastro (CSIS, Jakarta) and Peter Drysdale (ANU, Canberra) The idea that regional architecture in Asia and the Pacific is not up to the tasks it now needs to serve has been around for some time. It has been inspired in part by worries about the untidiness in the competing structures — across the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: easy to conceive, harder to deliver

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  A potential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be a preferential trading arrangement (PTA) to be built on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (P4) between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore which entered into force in 2006. The P4 is an agreement among partners who understand ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copenhagen Climate Change meeting 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Countdown to Copenhagen   The Guardian: Countdown to Copenhagen Climate change on Wednesday-night.com Québec at Copenhagen : Moving to a greener economy Global Treaty on Climate Change 2009 15 people worth watching in Copenhagen   Jeffrey Sachs: End ...
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• Hatoyama’s FTA strategy: no strategy at all?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Author: Joel Rathus Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama has now had several opportunities to put forward his view on a Free Trade Area in East Asia. Thus far his ‘vision’ has proven to be more dependent on the audience, rather than economic or strategic factors. This can be seen in his approaches towards the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Green Opportunities for SMEs amid challenges from Climate Change

  
  Andrew: Inside & Insights — Authority: 410
  The following is an article from City News that I wrote during one of sessions at the recent APEC SME Summit 2009. This session was about how SMEs could capitalise on the green movement. After a rousing kick off of the APEC SME Summit with keynote speeches by Alibaba Group’s Chairman and CEO, Jack Ma and [...]
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• WTO problems with the Doha Round and beyond

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Author: Andrew Elek In a new study, titled The Doha Round: ‘Death-Defying Agenda’ or ‘Don’t Do it Again’? , Stuart Harbinson examines the origins of the Doha Round in 2001 and its painfully slow progress in missing deadline after deadline since the original date set for completion of 2005. ...
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• Obama’s trip to Asia

  
  New World Order University Forum — Authority: 119
  Reporting on foreign affairs is usually thin and often misleading. Yes, we know that every country seeks “closer ties” with every other country. We’re trying to dig beneath the surface to find the real forces at work. What were the real cutting issues facing President Obama during his Asian trip last week? ...
  4 weeks ago

• SBY can rally support for legally binding CO2 cuts

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  | Sourced From Thejakartapost.com | President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono made it clear at a press conference after the closing of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Monday in Singapore that Indonesia would fight for a legally binding carbon emissions cut target at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen ...
  4 weeks ago

• U.S. trade policy in Asia: Going for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Author: Deborah Elms, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations, Singapore The ambiguity in U.S. President Barack Obama’s November 13th statement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks mirrors the somewhat torturous path in American trade policy to date on this topic. In his speech in Tokyo, ...
  4 weeks ago

• US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  The Japanese media has reported that Obama’s recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president perpetrated upon greeting ...
  4 weeks ago

• Climate Change is a Growing Global Challenge

  
  The Global Small Business Blog — Authority: 126
  Back from Lyon, France after attending the World Entrepreneurship Forum. I will report about it later this week (catch a quick glimpse of award ceremony venue here ). In the meantime, a new APEC website for the Environmental Goods and Services Information Exchange (EGSIE) went live. The EGSIE is an innovative ...
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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Author: Ann Capling, University of Melbourne At last week’s APEC meeting, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that the Obama Administration would participate in negotiations to establish a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. This announcement means that the TPP negotiations – ...
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• Copenhagen Climate Summit: A farce in the making?

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 560
  The hopes of many have been dashed, as US President Barack Obama and the assembled leaders of the APEC 2009 meeting in Singapore recently expressed doubts that any breakthrough towards arresting clima read more
  5 weeks ago

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