Workshop on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development for Caribbean Countries

Kingston, Jamaica, 27 November 2003

Under the auspices of the UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force (CBTF), a Capacity Building Workshop on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development for Caribbean Countries is scheduled to take place in Kingston, Jamaica, on 27 and 28 November 2003. The workshop is part of a project funded by the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Housing and the Environment of the Netherlands, as a follow-up to the Word Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).

The workshop follows a WTO regional workshop on Trade and Environment (Kingston, 25 and 26 November 2003). Both workshops are being organized in cooperation with the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the CARICOM secretariat and the Government of Jamaica. Invited countries include Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago (the WTO secretariat is inviting two participants from each country, one from a ministry responsible for trade issues and one from an agency responsible for environmental issues), as well as Jamaica. The Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), the organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and some regional NGOs are also invited to the workshop.

• integrated assessments of trade policies;
• environmental goods and trading opportunities for environmentally preferable products; and
• fisheries subsidies.

The draft agenda for the meeting is posted below, together with an initial package of three background papers covering the issues of integrated assessment, environmentally preferable products (from organic agriculture), and the report of a recent UNEP capacity building meeting held in the LAC region (March 2003).

Documents and Presentations

	Title	Author	File
	Address	Senator
	Brochure	Secretariat
	Certification	Anne-Rose Durocher, Certifier
	Concept Note, Environmentally Preferable Goods and Services: Opportunities and Challenges for Caribbean Countries	Secretariat
	Defining Capacity Building Needs Related to Integrated Assessment of Trade-Related Policies	UNEP
	Developing a CBTF Capacity Building Programme on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development for the Caribbean Region	Secretariat
	Environmentally Preferable Goods and Services	UNCTAD
	Fisheries Subsidy Reform for Sustainable Development	UNEP
	Informal Note	Secretariat
	Integrated Assessment: Issues and Capacity Building Needs	UNEP
	List of participants	Secretariat
	Maximizing the contribution of trade to sustainable development: the role of Integrated Assessments and related capacity building needs	Secretariat
	Negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services in WTO	WTO
	Policy Dialogue on Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products	Secretariat
	Programme	Secretariat
	Questionnaire	Secretariat
	The final report of the UNEP workshop in Mexico City in March 2003, Report of the UNEP Capacity Building Meeting on Environment, Trade and Sustainable Development for the Latin American and Caribbean Region	Secretariat
	The impact of environmental requirements on international trade	UNCTAD
	The Negotiations on Fisheries Subsidies	WTO
	Training Module, Environmentally Preferable Products and the Tourism Sector in the Caribbean	UNCTAD

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