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Aug 16, 2024 | 
odi.org | Jodie Keane |Linda Calabrese
The textiles and clothing industry is a powerful engine for economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly in developing countries. However, this progress often comes at a high environmental and social cost. New regulations seek to address social and environmental issues in global textile and clothing global value chains (GVCs), and nowadays participation increasingly requires actions to avoid adverse impacts, especially on the environment.
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May 28, 2024 | 
odi.org | Sara Pantuliano |Jan Yves Remy |Jodie Keane
Time is running out to keep the climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement within reach. Wealthy countries have introduced new industrial and green trade policy measures, but there are concerns that some of these are having adverse effects – hitting countries that have contributed the least to the climate crisis the hardest.
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May 2, 2024 | 
odi.org | Jodie Keane
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time coming. But without careful design and more proactive support for business and suppliers in the developing world, there are real risks of well-intentioned policies putting the poorest countries in a “green squeeze”.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Jodie Keane
By Jodie Keane, Senior Research Fellow, International Economic Development Group, ODI
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time coming.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Jodie Keane
The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time coming. But without careful design and more proactive support for business and suppliers in the developing world, there are real risks of well-intentioned policies putting the poorest countries in a “green squeeze”.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
odi.org | Jodie Keane
Trade policy must incentivise and facilitate low-carbon trade. Increasingly, it also sanctions and penalises trade that is not considered environmentally friendly. Over the coming years, new green trade measures will cover an increasing share of global trade. These measures are influencing demand and supply for different inputs and capabilities as well as increasing demand for new services (e.g. for counting carbon or proving compliance).
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
odi.org | Jodie Keane
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) regulation has made bold promises about the EU’s commitment to collaborate with and support low- and middle-income countries in decarbonising their manufacturing industries. However, when it comes to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) such as Mozambique, which has consistently been identified as being adversely affected by CBAM, the specific support measures are still shrouded in uncertainty. The big question looms: how will this support be provided?
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
preventionweb.net | Nathaniel Mason |Jodie Keane |Mark Miller
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
odi.org | Mark Miller |Jodie Keane |Nathaniel Mason
There is ever more need to move away from an unhelpful binary distinction between achieving development and addressing climate change. Theeffects of climate change, including actions to mitigate it, are reshaping development pathways on a global scale. A global economy being reshaped by climate changeMuch of the focus on climate and development has centred on the allocation of the marginal ‘aid’ dollar.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
odi.org | Nathaniel Mason |Jodie Keane |Mark Miller |Prachi Agarwal
Climate change is not confined by national boundaries—it has far-reaching impacts that transcend borders and reshape the global economy. The effects of climate change and countries' responses to it have significant cross-border consequences. Flows of natural resources, ecosystem services, traded goods and services, investment, ideas, migration, and travel are all undergoing shifts as a result.
