Energy

India rejects US solar claim at WTO, explores new defence

GENEVA: India hit back on Monday at Washington's latest legal assault on its solar power policies+ at the World Trade Organization, rejecting a US legal claim and exploring possible new protection

Publication Date: 
09/01/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, WTO, United States Of America (US), India, Energy
Energy

U.S. plans to raise again in WTO solar power issue with India

Renewable energy has become a hot area of trade friction

Publication Date: 
21/12/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, WTO, India, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Energy
Energy

Tackling fossil fuel subsidies through International Trade Agreements

Fossil fuel subsidies undercut the international community’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change objectives in many ways.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2017
Cleo Verkuijl, Harro Van Asselt, Tom Moerenhout, Liesbeth Casier, Peter Wooders
Climate Strategies
Tags:
Fossil Fuels, Subsidies, Renewable Energy, WTO, Trade, India, Global
Energy

Fossil fuel subsidies reduction and the World Trade Organization

This paper develops the broad contours of an ambitious approach to fossil fuel subsidy reform using the multilateral trade system. It does not remain within the limits of existing World Trade Organization (WTO) law, or the overall market-opening goals of the WTO.

Publication Date: 
27/10/2017
Joel P. Trachtman
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
Tags:
Fossil Fuels, Subsidies, WTO, Climate Change, Renewable Energy
Agriculture

Agriculture, development, and the global trading system: 2000– 2015

This book is devoted to the complex relationship between the global trading system and food security, focusing on two important elements: the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and how food price volatility can be managed, or not, through trade instruments.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2017
Antoine Bouët, David Laborde
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Tags:
Agriculture, Development, Trade, Food Prices, Food Security, Crop Insurance, WTO, India, Global
Energy

Solar projects: India hopes to meet WTO deadline on sourcing norms

New projects not to have local sourcing clause, on which WTO had raised objections

Publication Date: 
14/07/2017
Amiti Sen
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, WTO, Renewable Energy, Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Energy Policy, Energy
Energy

Local solar manufacturers seek ‘Safeguard Duty’

Badly hit by a shrinking market and idle capacity, local manufacturers of solar cells and modules have decided to approach the government again seeking to impose a ‘safeguard duty’ on imported equi

Publication Date: 
30/06/2017
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Power Industry, Renewable Energy, WTO, Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Energy
Energy

Solar power: US gives India time till year-end to scrap local sourcing rules

New contracts signed after December 14, under JNNSM, have to be without domestic content requirement

Publication Date: 
27/06/2017
Amiti Sen
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), WTO, Energy
Agriculture

We can't afford to lose farmers

The farmers are in trouble because the glut means that the value of the crop has gone down

Publication Date: 
19/06/2017
Sunita Narain
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Madhya Pradesh, Farmers, Public Distribution System (PDS), Groundwater, WTO, Subsidies, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Energy

Indian solar panel makers demand anti-dumping duty against China

This is the third attempt by the Indian panel makers to approach DGAD for anti-dumping duty

Publication Date: 
07/06/2017
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, China, WTO, Energy Policy, Energy

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