WTO: Guyana's trade envoy nominated to chair Doha rules negotiations (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the World Trade Organization's General Council on 24 November announced the nomination of Guyana's trade envoy, Ambassador Leslie Ramsammy, as chairperson of the Doha Negotiating Group on Rules.

Trade: G20 leaders rally behind multilateral trade as US opts out (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Leaders of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing countries on 23 November issued a powerful declaration in Johannesburg, South Africa, on strengthening the multilateral trade rules, particularly the World Trade Organization.

Trade: US again blocks Appellate appointments, DSS reform talks to restart? (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), Ambassador Clare Kelly of New Zealand, is likely to restart formal negotiations on the reform of the dispute settlement system (DSS) that have remained dormant for the past ten months.

FAO: UN expert calls for Seed Treaty to address DSI-induced biopiracy (PRIV)
(TWN, Geneva)
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food has called for the inclusion of digital sequence information (DSI) within the scope of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), also known as the "Seed Treaty".

CBD: Parties bicker over IPBES' transformative change & nexus assessments (PRIV)
(Lim Li Ching, London)
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), at a subsidiary body meeting, could not agree on whether to "welcome" or "take note of" two recent thematic assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).