{"id":101515,"date":"2023-03-24T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&#038;p=101515"},"modified":"2023-03-24T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:11:20","slug":"amid-recent-slowdown-in-global-trade-green-goods-are-the-winning-ticket-unctad","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/amid-recent-slowdown-in-global-trade-green-goods-are-the-winning-ticket-unctad\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid recent slowdown in global trade, \u2018green goods\u2019 are the winning ticket: UNCTAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global trade slowed down in the second half of 2022, but demand for environmentally friendly goods stayed strong, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Section2\" dir=\"LTR\">\n<p><a name=\"block-views-block-content-fields-block-body\"><\/a> According to\u00a0UNCTAD\u2019s latest\u00a0Global Trade Update, trade in \u201cgreen goods\u201d,\u00a0which use fewer resources and pollute less, grew by four per cent in the second half of the year, reaching a\u00a0record $1.9 trillion in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is good news for the planet, as\u00a0these goods are key to protecting the environment and fighting climate change,\u201d said UNCTAD economist Alessandro Nicita, one of the report\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p>Green goods that performed especially well in 2022 included electric and hybrid vehicles, non-plastic packaging and wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in its\u00a0flagship report\u00a0that greenhouse gas emissions needed to go down now, and be cut by almost half by 2030, if the goal of keeping temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is to be achieved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[1617],"region":[26],"source":[1538],"country":[1920],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101516,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101515\/revisions\/101516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101515"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=101515"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=101515"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=101515"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=101515"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=101515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}