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The World Today - October issueThe World Today - October issue
Monday 6 October 2008
The current financial crisis should come as no surprise, writes Dr Paola Subacchi in this month's The World Today....

Somali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International CommunitySomali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International Community
Thursday 2 October 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008 and threatens to disrupt international trade and...

Six Perspectives on the Georgia ConflictSix Perspectives on the Georgia Conflict
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Six new briefing notes from the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House offer analysis and insight on the...

Making Sense of the EU Climate Change Package
October, 2008
The EU is currently at a hectic stage in the development of its internal climate change policies. Having proposed...

Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
October, 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008; so far over 60 ships have been...

Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable Forest Use in the Democratic Republic of Congo
October, 2008
Download Paper here (French version) This is a report of a meeting, Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable...

After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
September, 2008
The true driver of Russia's foreign agenda is the domestic situation. The Russian ruling class has returned to a...

 

 

Duncan Brack

 Duncan Brack

Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme

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Expertise

  • International environmental crime
  • Illegal logging and the timber trade
  • Ozone depletion and the Montreal Protocol
  • International environmental regimes
  • Trade and environment

Projects

  • Forest law enforcement, illegal logging and trade in illegal timber
  • Compliance regimes in mulilateral environmental agreements
  • The growth and control of international environmental crime

Recent Publications

  • 'Controlling Illegal Logging: Using Public Procurement Policy', Chatham House Briefing Paper, June 2008
  • 'The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development: A Guide to the Debate', Chatham House Briefing Paper, December 2005
  • 'Illegal Logging', Chatham House Briefing Paper, March 2005
  • 'Public Procurement of Timber: EU member state initiatives for sourcing legal and sustainable timber' Report, with Jade Saunders, Nov 2004
  • 'A Licensing System for Legal Timber', Report, Sept 2004
  • 'Trade & Environment in the WTO: after Cancun', Briefing Paper, with Thomas Branczik, Feb 2004
  • 'The Next Trade War? GM Products, the Cartagena Protocol and the WTO',
    Briefing Paper, with Robert Falkner and Judith Goll, Sept 2003
  • 'Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO', Report, with Kevin Gray, Sept 2003
  • 'National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities',
    with Luca Tacconi & Marco Boscolo, July 2003.

Experience

2003-date Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, Chatham House
1998-2003 Head, Sustainable Development Programme, Chatham House
1995-1998 Senior Research Fellow, Sustainable Development Programme, Chatham House



Broadcast Experience

Moderate amount, mostly radio but some TV