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The briefing examines the adverse effects of EFTA's intellectual property requirements in FTAs, highlighting how data exclusivity in the EFTA-Egypt FTA restricts access to affordable medicines and how requirements for UPOV 1991 accession threaten seed-sharing traditions and food security for poor farmers. It concludes that these TRIPS-Plus obligations overextend the policy capacity of developing nations without providing clear advantages to EFTA.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) increasingly integrated climate change into its 2023 state reviews and released General Comment No. 26, which establishes the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as implicit in the Convention. The CRC's work focused on state obligations for mitigation and adaptation, the regulation of private actors' contributions to environmental harm, and the protection of children's rights across various legal and procedural frameworks.

The briefing examines the impact of aviation emissions and the failure of international measures, specifically CORSIA, to align with the Paris Agreement. It details the 'stop-the-clock' derogation that paused EU ETS enforcement for flights entering and leaving Europe and warns that continuing this exemption risks the EU's 2030 climate targets and increases the oversupply of emission allowances.