WTO: Chair calls session on PSH & SSM, sidesteps African-Cairns proposal (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the Doha agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organization is convening a meeting on 21 November to discuss public stockholding (PSH) programs for food security and a special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for developing countries, and is seeking written contributions from members.

Climate: Multilateralism in the balance - expectations from COP30 (PRIV)
(Meena Raman and Radhika Chatterjee, Belem)
The 30th session of the meeting of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) will take place from 10-21 November, in Belem, Brazil.

PABS: Talks begin, "equal footing", legal certainty to deliver equity stressed (PRIV)
(TWN, Geneva)
Text-based negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) System began at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG3), with calls for the text to reflect the "equal footing" principle and legal certainty in the provisions governing access and benefit sharing, consistent with Article 12 of the Pandemic Agreement.