Solide Einschätzung von Thomas Fuster in der NZZ zu den Chancen und Risiken eines #Freihandelsabkommen #Schweiz - #USA. Am ehesten möglich und verhandelbar seien sektorspezifische #Handelsabkommen, etwa zu #e-commerce (digitalem Handel).
https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/freier-handel-mit-den-usa-so-stehen-die-chancen-fuer-die-schweiz-unter-trump-20-ld.1859543 #Handel

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24923004

#COP29: What were the Key outcomes agreed at the UN🇺🇳 climate talks in 🇦🇿Baku? | Helpful explainer from Carbon Brief https://buff.ly/3OnUQg0

In the 2024 World Energy Outlook, the IEA heralds the arrival of the "age of electricity"⚡️(following the age of oil & the age of coal). IEA see power demand growing faster than previously anticipated, while #FossilFuel consumption declines faster 📉 https://buff.ly/4h4pKXR

And I’m glad to have contributed with my own two minutes. In these, I am summarizing a recent blogpost of mine on the role of #parliaments in setting #TradePolicy, see thread here: https://mstdn.social/@oliver_braunschweig/112755739726747713

🎧A podcast episode with a broad set of ideas for how to make #trade more #inclusive. Very much worth listening to. The points raised cover the #WTO; national policies for #women, #LGBTQ, or #indigenous communities; the role of #parliaments; making #TradeFinance #accessible; or the role of #digital trade, to name just a few.
🔗 https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/trade-bites/id1499099968?i=1000671648636

What do you think, should parliaments have a bigger role in negotiating #TradeAgreements, what are important principles for negotiators, #parliaments, and the executive to secure public support for #trade and global #cooperation?
#FTA #TradePolicy

Parliamentary involvement can both strengthen domestic support for #trade and for #InternationalCooperation. This is becoming even more critical as global #TradeCooperation is shifting and geopolitical considerations are moving up policy agendas.

🔗 https://www.cepweb.org/to-advance-trade-policy-strengthen-the-role-of-parliaments/ 🧵3/3

Key principles for parliaments’ involvement in trade policy. They should:
• build capacity
• define goals of #TradePolicy
• accompany #negotiations
• ratify #agreements & oversee their #implementation.

These are crucial to better align trade with the public interest. 🧵2/3

Trade #policy often sidesteps parliamentary scrutiny. My new analysis examines how strengthening the role of #parliaments can advance more balanced and sustainable #trade. I identified four key principles for this. 🧵 /3

🗞️ From #FiscalPolicy for the #EnergyTransition to #MonetaryPolicy, and from #Illicit Financial Flows from #Commodity #Trade to #TechnicalStandards -- the most recent issue of perspective by the Council on Economic Policies contains many #policy-relevant nuggets.

👓 Check it out -- and, if interested, sign up!
🔗 https://mailchi.mp/cepweb/cep_perspectives_19-june-24

From opportunities in #sustainable #SupplyChains to controversial topics on intellectual property rights (#IPRs) - the recently signed #trade agreement between #India and the #EFTA states has it. In my newest blog post, I am calling on national #parliaments to approve the agreement, explore synergies for #sustainability, and remain vigilant about controversial issues.

🔗 For more: https://www.cepweb.org/a-step-into-the-right-direction-the-india-efta-trade-agreement/

#Switzerland #Norway #Iceland #Liechtenstein #FTA #TradeAgreement #SupplyChain #econtwitter

🗞️ The newest edition of CEP Perspectives with insights and reflections from the Council on Economic Policies (CEP). Join us in the debate and subscribe to receive the #newsletter and further updates in your mailbox.

👓 Topics in this newsletter:
- #China 's #RealEstate Market
- #Al for Humanity
- #Central Banks & Sovereign #Bonds
- #LocalContent Requirements (#LCRs) in #trade agreements
- and more

🔗https://mailchi.mp/cepweb/cep_perspectives_12-april-2024?

A call to strengthening the #resilience of global #food system. The authors propose #StressTesting. Extreme weather events associated with #ClimateChange are happening more often and are having bigger impacts. This is already leading to higher #food prices and reduces the ability of governments to secure food #SupplyChains. The authors state that last year, the US alone had 28 such events with an associated cost of $1 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/comment-banks-do-stress-testing-we-need-do-it-global-food-system-too-2024-04-18/
#SupplyChain #trade #inequality #access

G20 #debt relief system (" #CommonFramework ") is not working, says #WorldBank chief economist Indermit Gill: “The common framework is not working. If the money from debt relief was coming in dribs and drabs, I would say OK, but there hasn’t been a single dollar of debt relief from the common framework.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/21/world-bank-chief-economist-indermit-gill-g20-debt-relief-mechanism-common-framework

💡 A different take on #LocalContent, to benefit people living around or near large projects: not only including them in planning or sourcing from them, but treating them as co-investors, exemplified by projects and laws in #Canada, #Nepal, or #SouthAfrica.

🔗 https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/03/indigenous-partnerships-can-bring-progress-in-lac-energy-projects/

#renewables #energy #resources #IndigenousPeoples #JustTransition

💡It is essential for the #policy-mix to address environmental, social, and economic #sustainability. This research shows how environmental policies that increase #poverty could be self-defeating and paradoxically even *increase* pollution. #JustTransition https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/development-environment-complementarity-under-weak-institutions

on local content requirements for an affordable, secure, and clean #energy future:

1️⃣ Avert future local content requirements, phase out existing ones.
2️⃣ Ensure #policy certainty.
3️⃣ Retain policy space where there is evidence that this kind of policy can play a positive role.

🔗 More on this here: https://www.cepweb.org/striking-a-balance-on-local-content-requirements-in-trade-agreements-the-case-of-the-energy-sector/

❓ In which areas do you see the most potential to strengthen the #GlobalValueChains that underpin the #EnergyTransition? (2/2)

📑 My newest blog post focuses on so-called "#LocalContent requirements". It is one of the areas where #trade cooperation between countries is important and can support a better #policy balance.

💡 The background is that the number of local content requirements globally has risen starkly in recent years (see graph).

📢 And this is how #TradeAgreements can help strike a balance... (1/2) #econtwitter

🧑‍⚖️ A fascinating look into #ISDS (Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement) and #fraud. While not all #arbitration is bad, #secrecy raises the chance of not detecting fraud. Two links:

🔗1️⃣ NYT on "How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/magazine/nigeria-corruption-michael-quinn-brendan-cahill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

🔗2️⃣ What a colleague of mine wrote on ISDS a while ago is still relevant: Investor-State Dispute Settlement: An #Anachronism Whose Time Has Gone https://www.cepweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CEP-Policy-Brief-ISDS-1.pdf

#law #international #investment #transparency