WTO : Fisheries chair aims to conclude OCOF subsidies deal, ignoring CBDR (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, New Delhi)
The chair of the Doha fisheries subsidi es negotiations at the World Trade Organization, Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson o f Iceland, said on 29 November that he wants to conclude the proposed agreeme nt on disciplines on subsidies contributing to overcapacity and overfishing (O COF) at the upcoming WTO's General Council meeting on 16-17 December.

Climate : Divergences in key matters on global stocktake at COP29 (PRIV)
(Radhika Chatterjee, New Delhi)
Parties could not find consensus o n any of the three key matters relating to the Global Stocktake (GST) at the Baku climate talks which concluded on 24 November.

Climate : COP29 adopts decision on mitigation work programme (PRIV)
(Radhika Chatterjee, New Delhi)
Parties adopted a decision to cont inue work of the "Sharm-el-Sheikh Mitigation Implementation and Ambition Work Programme" (called MWP), at the recently concluded climate talks held in Ba ku, Azerbaijan.