Workshop on Trade and Environment Post Doha

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Workshop on Trade and Environment Post Doha

• San José de Costa Rica
• 1-3 July 2002
• Implications for development,
• UNCTAD contribution

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UNCTAD activities

• Technical assistance and capacity building for
  developing countries, especially LDCs, and
  economies in transition in support of their
  participation in the WTO Post-Doha work
  programme (UNCTAD/RMS/TCS/1).
• Capacity-Building Task Force for Trade,
  Environment and Development (CBTF)
• UNCTAD/FIELD project on Building Capacity for
  Improved Policy Making and Negotiation on Key
  Trade and Environment Issues

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UNCTAD post-Doha

• Characteristics
• Demand-driven (priorities expressed by
  Geneva-based delegated and capital-based
  officials from developing countries)
• Takes account of economic integration processes
  as well as the need to build supply capacities
  and
• Tailor-made to the national/regional needs of
  each beneficiary developing country or region

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UNCTAD post-Doha

• Brainstorming on the negotiating mandates in
  the area of environment
• Development of a positive agenda on trade,
  environment and development
• Support to enhance understanding of development
  aspects of specific policy instruments under
  multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and
  implications of proposals
• interface between agriculture and the
  environment

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UNCTAD post-Doha

• Environmental goods and services
• Environmentally preferable products, in
  particular organic agricultural products.
• Environmental and SPS requirements and market
  access
• Traditional knowledge (TK) support to
  effective participation in discussions in WTO,
  WIPO and CBD
• Training on trade and environment
• Impact assessments.

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CBTF

• CBTF projects
• WTO regional TE seminars
• WSSD

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Paragraph 19 TRIPS

• Council for TRIPS, to examine, inter alia
• The relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and
  the Convention on Biological Diversity
• The protection of traditional knowledge and
  folklore
• Development dimension
• TRIPS Council to be guided by objectives and
  principles set out in Articles 7 and 8 and to
  take fully into account the development dimension

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Paragraph 19 TRIPS

• Seminar in New Delhi, April 2002
• Developing countries working together in several
  forums (CBD, WIPO, FAO, WTO, UNCTAD), in
  particular on a multilateral framework for sui
  generis systems

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Fisheries subsidies Paragraph 28 or 31

• Negotiations
• Clarify and improve WTO disciplines on fisheries
  subsidies
• Development dimension
• Taking into account the importance of this sector
  to developing countries.

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Paragraph
31 (i)

• Negotiations
• The relationship between existing WTO rules and
  specific trade obligations set out in
  multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs),
  para 31
• Development dimension
• Take into account the needs of developing and
  least-developed countries

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Paragraph
31 (i)

• UNCTAD activities
• Policy dialogues
• Positive or enabling measures

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Environmental Good and Services, Paragraph
31(iii)

• Negotiations
• The reduction or, as appropriate, elimination of
  tariff and non-tariff barriers to environmental
  goods and services
• Development dimension
• Take into account the needs of developing and
  least-developed countries

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Environmental Good and Services, Paragraph
31(iii)

• Issues
• Definition?
• National development of EGS in developing
  countries and their participation in world trade

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CTE, Paragraph 32

• Effect of environmental measures on market
  access, especially in relation to developing
  countries, in particular LDCs
• Situations in which the elimination or reduction
  of trade restrictions and distortions would
  benefit trade, the environment and development
• The relevant provisions of the TRIPS and
• Labelling requirements for environmental purposes.

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CTE, Paragraph 32

• Project on Standards and Trade
• Expert Meeting on Environmental Requirements and
  International Trade (2-4 October 2002)

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CTE and CTD (Paragraph 51)

• The Committee on Trade and Development and the
  Committee on Trade and Environment shall, within
  their respective mandates, each act as a forum to
  identify and debate developmental and
  environmental aspects of the negotiations, in
  order to help achieve the objective of having
  sustainable development appropriately reflected.