This issue of Making It: Industry for Development focuses on recent developments in global trade. In the keynote article, Peter Sutherland, a former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, argues that a conclusion of the...
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Mozambique loses a fortune to illegal timber exports Corruption in world’s fourth poorest country aids illegal logging & timber smuggling to China LONDON: Weak forest governance and corruption in Mozambique are facilitating...
Publication Date: 2013This synthesis report was conducted in cooperation with the Policy Research Centre for Environment and Economy, a subsidiary of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection. It examines five sectors in...
Publication Date: 2012 This booklet presents 24 case studies from 17 countries on grassroots solutions to the impacts of climate change. Contents Theme: Capacity Building Strengthening capacity for conflict prevention and the...
The theme of this – the third – issue of Making It: Industry for Development is industrial policy. In response to the global economic crisis, governments around the world are desperate to jump-start economic growth. Following the...
Publication Date: August 2013 This report finds that China’s growing affluence has made it the world’s largest consumer of primary materials. From 1970 to 2008, China’s per capita consumption of materials grew from one third to...
The report is the outcome of a Green Finance Task Force which was tasked to develop policy, regulatory and market-innovations to better align China's financial system with the needs of green industry and sustainable development.
China and the global community’s future development depends on its transition to an inclusive, environmentally friendly, low carbon economy. Making this transition will require political will, continued technological innovation...
EIA report Appetite for Destruction (released 29.11.12) exposes China as the world's number one buyer of illegal timber and a major exporter of deforestation around the world. This is the English version.