SAIIA and the Mail and Guardian newspaper recently hosted a critical thinking forum on South African trade, industrial and exchange rate policies, where Treasury DG Lesetja Kganyago gave the keynote speech. They also launched an op-eds series on trade reform in the Mail and Guardian:
| 15 Sep 2010 - China in Africa: Debating Sino-Sudan relations, Oasis Camp, Juba, South Sudan |
| 16 Sep 2010 - Internalizing sustainability for a low-carbon future: the case of a South African business, The Centre for the Book, Cape Town |
| 21 Sep 2010 - From Global Energy Dependence to Local Economic Independence, Jan Smuts House, Johannesburg |
| 12 Oct 2010 - Scoping Workshop: Developing the Capacity of Civil Society to Track the Implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism, Jan Smuts House, Johannesburg |
The long-awaited Copenhagen summit on climate change gave to the world a broad political agreement, but without any teeth. Meanwhile concerns over the climate change agenda finding its way into the multilateral trading system are growing, at a time when the trading system is struggling to find its own feet.
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