Stacy VanDeveer's blog

Rare Earth Politics, Cooperation, and the WTO

Posted March 21, 2012   By Stacy VanDeveer

If we are to have one set of rules for international trade, they must be debated, litigated, and enforced. All the “big guys” must be made to play by the same rules. This week’s challenge of China’s rare earths trading policies by the United States, the European Union, and Japan is the first such challenge filed jointly by this trio.

Oh Canada…

Posted December 15, 2011   By Stacy VanDeveer

This week, Canadian officials formally announced what everyone has known for years: Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol and renounce the commitments and promises it made in 1997 (and many times since). In fact, Canadian federal officials plan for the country’s emissions to go up. They don’t call press conferences to announce that, of course. But there it is.