WTO: India confronts DG & ECA participants ahead of crucial GC meet (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Ahead of a crucial World Trade Organization General Council (GC) meeting on 14-15 July, India has launched a rigorous legal and institutional challenge against the proponents of the controversial "Agreement on Electronic Commerce" (ECA) and the WTO Director-General for acting as a depository for the agreement's instruments of acceptance - an apparent violation of the Marrakesh Agreement that established the WTO in 1995.

Climate: GCF launches third replenishment process after heated wrangles (PRIV)
(Radhika Chatterjee, New Delhi)
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) launched arrangements for its third replenishment (GCF-3) at its forty-fourth meeting (B.45), after very heated wrangles between developed and developing country Board members.

UN: Global food prices edge down amid diverging commodity trends (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
World food commodity prices dipped slightly in June, as declines in cereal, sugar and dairy quotations outweighed increases in those for vegetable oils and meat, amid continued mixed trends across major commodity groups, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).