IISD Reporting Services
December 2006
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Forests
Dec. 11-16, 2006 | New York, USA Meeting of ad hoc expert group. -
Sustainable Use
Dec. 12-15, 2006 | Nairobi, Kenya Regional workshop on biological diversity.
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East Asian Seas
Dec. 12-16, 2006 | Haikou, China | Vienna, Austria Includes a two-day ministerial forum. -
Desertification
Dec. 17-19, 2006 | Algiers, Algeria On the agenda: knowledge management for action.
Recent Commentary
Good Times on the Commodity Price Rollercoaster (PDF - 230 kb)
2006 is turning out to be a pretty good year for commodity producers.
Commodity prices are at their highest levels in decades, driven by strong demand from the emerging economies of China and India coupled with gravity-defying American consumption. In 2003, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest copper consumer. By 2004, it was consuming 46 per cent more copper than the U.S. and accounting for 20 per cent of global demand. Copper and aluminium prices are now at or near 20-year highs. Rubber, rice and cocoa prices have risen steeply. Most visibly, oil is more expensive than at any time since the early 1970s.
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What's New?
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Trade, Aid and Security
New book offers an agenda for peace and development. -
Manitoba, Canada
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Subsidy Watch - December
In this issue: The WTO's Permanent Group of Experts on Subsidies. Unique? Yes. But hardly a roaring success.
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