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WTO Doha Round Put On Hold Indefinitely	The Doha Round of trade negotiations was put into deep freeze on 24 July, after a meeting of ministers from six key trading nations collapsed over divisions on how to cut farm subsidies and tariffs. It is not clear when -- or if -- the talks, which started nearly five years ago, will resume. Kamal Nath, India's Commerce Minister, said that the round, though not dead, "is between intensive care and the crematorium". While some civil society groups lamented the breakdown as a missed opportunity for balancing the multilateral trade system, others welcomed the suspension as a chance to completely revise countries' approach to multilateral trade. more
G8 Agree To Promote Energy Security	Amid oil prices soaring above US$75 a barrel, global energy security was a central theme at the 15-17 July summit in St. Petersburg of heads of state from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations. Leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US focused mostly on how to increase oil field investment in order to raise production. To make that possible, the summit adopted the St. Petersburg Plan of Action on Global Energy Security which highlighted a number of approaches to deal with the interrelated challenges of energy security, air pollution control and reducing greenhouse gas associated with long-term global climate change. more

In Brief

WTO Panel To Examine Ecuador's Challenge Of US Shrimp Duties World Trade Report: Using Subsidies To Achieve Policy Objectives European Ombudsman Overrules Commission On Release Of Biotech Submission Scientists Warn Of Irreversible Biodiversity Loss Sharks, Sturgeon, Whales Discussed At CITES Animals Committee

Events    &   Resources
Events	20-26 August, Stockholm, Sweden: 2006 WORLD WATER WEEK IN STOCKHOLM. The annual World Water Week in Stockholm seeks to provide a meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. It includes plenary sessions and panel debates, scientific workshops, independently organised seminars and side events, exhibitions and prize ceremonies in the water field. This year's theme is: 'Beyond the River - Sharing Benefits and Responsibilities." For more information contact David Trouba, tel: +46 8 522 13989; fax: +46 8 522 13961; email: dave.trouba@siwi.org.
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Resources	THE ROLE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN EXPLORING AND PROTECTING AGRICULTURAL GENETIC RESOURCES. Edited by J. Ruane and A. Sonnino, (FAO), 2006. This book brings together papers from an international workshop held on 5-7 March 2005 in Turin, Italy, on the role of biotechnology for the characterisation and conservation of crop, forest, animal and fishery genetic resources as well as the background and summary documents from an e-mail conference on the same subject, focusing on developing countries, that was held three months afterwards. The book contains four chapters on the status of the world's livestock, fishery, crop and forest genetic resources respectively; two chapters on the use of cryopreservation and reproductive technologies for conservation of genetic resources; eight chapters dedicated to the use of molecular markers for characterisation and conservation of genetic resources; and two chapters from the e-mail conference.
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