Capacity Building workshop on Post-Doha issues, Cape Town, 22 May 2003

UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF Workshop on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development for Caribbean Countries..

Kingston, Jamaica. 27-28 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.

The workshop will focus on
(a) integrated assessments of trade policies;
(b) environmental goods and trading opportunities for environmentally preferable products; and
(c) fisheries subsidies.

Documents and Presentations..

This webpage contains the agenda and background papers for this workshop, which will offer capacity building activities on integrated assessment of trade-related policies, environmental goods and services, environmentally preferable products and fisheries subsidies. The workshop also aims to define a longer term programme of capacity building activities for the Caribbean, endorsed by countries in the region, for which UNEP and UNCTAD will then secure the necessary financial resources for implementation.

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). Additional background papers will be posted over the next two weeks.

	Programme	pdf 22 KB
	Informal Note	pdf 78 KB
	Questionnaire	pdf 150 KB
	Brochure	pdf 95 KB
	List of participants	pdf 39 KB
	The following draft of the capacity building priorities for the Caribbean region and a very preliminary structure of a programme to meet them have been drawn up on the basis of what we have learnt from prior meetings and work in the region, and discussions with some governments. This outline is intended to inform discussions in the CBTF workshop on 27-28 November. A revision of it, based on further discussions in the CBTF workshop and the preceding WTO regional seminar, will be presented at the beginning of the afternoon session on the second day. On the basis of discussions in that session it is intended that participants agree the priorities for the region, and the structure of a programme to meet them. Developing a CBTF Capacity Building Programme on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development for the Caribbean Region	pdf 39 KB
	Background Papers
	UNEP working paper, Maximizing the contribution of trade to sustainable development: the role of Integrated Assessments and related capacity building needs	pdf 153 KB
	The report of the organic agriculture workshop in Brussels at the ACP Secretariat, Policy Dialogue on Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products	pdf 46 KB
	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	pdf 85 KB
	UNEP-UNCTAD Concept Note, Environmentally Preferable Goods and Services: Opportunities and Challenges for Caribbean Countries	pdf 103 KB
	UNCTAD Training Module, Environmentally Preferable Products and the Tourism Sector in the Caribbean	pdf 371 KB
	Presentations
	Senator the Hon. Delano Franklyn, Address
	UNCTAD, René Vossenaar, Environmentally Preferable Goods and Services
	UNCTAD, Nuria Castells, The impact of environmental requirements on international trade
	WTO, Negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services in WTO
	WTO, The Negotiations onFisheries Subsidies
	Anne-Rose Durocher, Certifier
	UNEP, Charles Arden-Clarke, Integrated Assessment: Issues and Capacity Building Needs
	UNEP, Fisheries Subsidy Reform for Sustainable Development
	UNEP, Defining Capacity Building Needs Related to Integrated Assessment of Trade-Related Policies

Substantive UNEP	Charles Arden-Clarke	charles.arden-clarke@unep.ch	tel +41 (0)22 917 8168
Substantive UNCTAD	Nuria Castells	nuria.castells@unctad.org	tel +41 (0)22 917 1796
Admin/ logistics	Angela Thompson	angela.thompson@unctad.org	tel +41 (0)22 917 1330
Web	Rafe Dent	rafe.dent@unctad.org	tel +41 (0)22 917 5791