This paper investigates non-governmental organisation (NGO) involvement in policy processes related to Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) comparing four countries: Norway, Brazil, Indonesia, and Tanzania. McNeill, Desmond Kasa, Sjur & Rajao, RaoniĬo-operation or co-optation? NGOs' roles in Norway's international climate and forest initiative.įull text in Research Archive Show summary The article concludes with recommendations to mitigate the potential negative health externalities of TIAs. Section 5 examines a particularly striking and topical instance of such power asymmetries, investor-state dispute settlement provisions in TIAs, and their relevance to health. Key power asymmetries within the global trade and investment architecture are described, and the way they influence how trade rules are made, implemented and adjudicated. The effects of trade and investment agreements on health are then analyzed, based on some of the most relevant evidence. ![]() This article begins by reviewing the changing structure of trade and investment policy, global production, and the relation between the two. Further, these mega-regional agreements will set default standards and rules of the game that even non-signatories will need to emulate in order to be competitive in the global market. Many governments, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, have voiced concerns that mega-regional agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, will erode governments’ scope for health protection, weakening for instance those options that remain permissible under World Trade Organization rules. Trade and Investment Agreements (TIAs) have been widely criticized for their potentially negative effects on health. ![]() Full text in Research Archive Show summary Trade and investment agreements: Implications for health protection. McNeill, Desmond Barlow, Pepita Birkbeck, Carolyn Deere Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko Grover, Anand & Schrecker, Ted Through these, McNeill is involved in issues of health and food governance and global-local links. McNeill is also a member of the High Level Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). McNeill was the director of the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health, established by the University of Oslo in collaboration with The Lancet. NORFACE: Evidence, knowledge and power in international development policy and practice (Finland, Netherlands, Estonia, Denmark, UK).GARNET, Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: (Numerous European countries).MACS New Management Systems of Wild South American Camelids: Socio-cultural and economic impacts (Scotland, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Germany, Spain).(Norway, Spain, Portugal, India, Vietnam) STRIVER, Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM – An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins.LUPIS Land Use Policies and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (Netherlands, Brazil, China, India, Tunisia, Kenya, Mali, France).McNeill has worked with numerous partners, largely through the following EU financed projects and networks: Since then he has been Professor, and Director of SUMs Research School. From 1992 - 2001 he was Director of the Centre.After moving to Norway in 1987 he worked as a consultant, and later adviser to NORAD.Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh from 1985-87.Lecturer, and later Director of Overseas Services, at the Development Planning Unit, University College London from 1976-84.From 2001-2018 he was Head of Research, and Director of SUMs Research School. Since that time he has worked primarily as an academic, but with an interest in linking research with policy. From 1969 – 71 he was a volunteer in Tanzania, and from 1971 – 75 a consultant undertaking studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. SUM4029 - Global Governance for Sustainable Developmentĭesmond McNeill graduated in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1969, and received a Ph.D in economics at University College London in 1988. ![]() ![]() SUM4019 - Consumption, Sustainability and Social Change.
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