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November 2016

Trade and Environment Review 2016: Fish Trade

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Trade and Environment Review 2016: Fish Trade examines issues pertinent to the promotion of sustainable use of living marine resources in healthy oceans and seas, bringing together a collection of independent articles by 24 leading experts and practitioners on fish governance systems; fish harvest, production and consumption; unsustainable fishing practices; fish and marine ecosystems management; and fish trade.
February 2019

Fair Fishing: Supporting Inclusive Fiscal Reform in Fisheries

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This paper Fair Fishing: Supporting Inclusive Fiscal Reform in Fisheries focuses on fiscal fisheries management instruments, which governments use to influence economic decisions on government spending and raise revenue through taxation.
January 2016

Trade Policy Options for Sustainable Oceans and Fisheries

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), World Economic Forum (WEF)
The objective of the paper Trade Policy Options for Sustainable Oceans and Fisheries is to provide fresh thinking on the key challenges facing the world’s oceans and fisheries and identify policy options and reform opportunities for the global trade system to support a transition towards sustainable fisheries and healthier oceans.
February 2020

Mineral Resource Governance in the 21st Century: Gearing Extractive Industries Towards Sustainable Development

International Resource Panel (IRP)
Decision-making in the extractive sector is shaped by a complex array of governance frameworks and initiatives operating along highly globalized mineral value chains. The report maps more than 80 existing international governance frameworks and initiatives which focus on delivering overlapping subsets of the 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development, but do not currently operate in a sufficiently coordinated or integrated manner. In this context, the report calls for a new governance framework for the extractive sector referred to as the “Sustainable Development Licence to Operate” and including consensus-based principles, policy options and best practices that are compatible with the Sustainable Development Goals and other international policy commitments.
January 2018

Mapping of Global Plastics Value Chain and Plastics Losses to the Environment: With a Particular Focus on Marine Environment

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report provides a comprehensive global mapping of plastic losses to the environment throughout the plastic value chain using 2015 as the reference year.
November 2013

Incentive-based Hilsa Fish Conservation and Management in Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges, Multi-stakeholder Workshop Report

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This workshop Incentive-based Hilsa Fish Conservation and Management in Bangladesh: Prospects and Challenges, Multi-stakeholder Workshop was held as part of a project that aims to reduce overfishing of the Hilsa fish in Bangladesh through a payment for ecosystem services (PES) programme.
February 2020

Global Futures: Assessing the global economic impacts of environmental change to support policy-making

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
This report summarises the first results of the Global Futures initiative—a partnership between WWF, the Global Trade Analysis Project and the Natural Capital Project—that has developed an innovative new model to calculate the impacts of nature’s decline on the world’s economies, trade, and industry.
April 2018

Fisheries Subsidies Rules at the WTO: A compilation of evidence and analysis

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

At the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference in December 2017, ministers adopted a Decision on Fisheries Subsidies directing negotiators to continue talks with a view to adopting an agreement by 2019, the year of the next ministerial conference.

February 2019

Subsidy Reform and Distributive Justice in Fisheries

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This paper analyses and discusses options for addressing equity concerns in fisheries subsidy reform and calls for governments to consider the impacts of subsidies and subsidy reform on vulnerable social groups.
September 2015

Living Blue Planet Report: Species, Habitats and Human Well-being

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
Living Blue Planet Report: Species, Habitats and Human Well-being shows that populations have been reduced on average by half globally in the last four decades, with some fish declining by close to 75 percent. The latest findings spell trouble for all nations, especially people in the developing world.

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