EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade

Parties to future agreement on environmental goods want to build on basis of Paris climate agreement

Nairobi, 14/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - The EU and the 16 other WTO members participating in the negotiations underway for a multi-lateral agreement on the liberalisation of environmental goods (EGA) want to take advantage of the head of steam provided by the international agreement on climate concluded at the UN climate conference (COP 21) in Paris (see EUROPE 11452) to reach a rapid agreement, in 2016, on the list of ecological products on which customs duty will be removed. This is...