Environmental Goods and Services

 

Developing countries may derive benefits from the liberalization of trade in environmental good and services (EGS), such as access to environmentally sound technologies and know-how, upgraded environmental infrastructure, more efficient resource management and improved environmental and public-health conditions.

Many uncertainties, however, limit the potential that liberalized EGS trade has to provide these benefits. A consensus on the definition of EGS has not been reached, and the implications of the liberalization of EGS trade on sustainable development has yet to be fully understood.

The CBTF will seek to enhance understanding of the implications of liberalization of EGS for sustainable development, including the impacts on balance of trade, and help developing countries to identify EGS, including environmentally preferable products, of special importance to their trade, environment and development objectives through capacity building events and thematic studies.

  

EGS events

  Date Location Title of EGS event    
  23 August 2005 Bangkok, Thailand Consultative Meeting on Negotiations on Environmental goods in the WTO More ...  
  21 July 2005 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Workshop on Post-Doha Trade and Environment Issues More ...  
  08 June 2005 Manila, The Philippines National Stakeholder Workshop Definition, Criteria, Issues and Identification of Environmental Goods More ...  
  08 May 2005 Amman, Jordan Advisory Mission: Policy and Technical aspects of the Negotiations on Environmental Goods More ...  
  12 April 2005 Lima, Peru Workshop on Negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services for the Andean Community Countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela Taller Andino sobre Bienes y Servicios Ambientales More ...  
  11 January 2005 Mauritius Side Event on Trade Liberalization, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) More ...  
  17 June 2004 Sao Paolo, Brazil Roundtable on Promoting Trade for Sustainable Development More ...  

EGS materials

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  Date Title of EGS material Author
Handout
Ppt
Study
  
  31 October 2005 Final report Secretariat
 
  21 July 2005 Experience from Dominican Republic on Trade and Environment issues in Negotiating DR-CAFTA. Experiencia de República Dominicana en Negociaciones sobre Comercio y Medio Ambiente CAFTA Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Dominican Republic, Hugo Rivera Santana
 
  21 July 2005 Acceso al Mercado con particular referencia a las Medidas Comerciales Ambientales aplicables SEICA, Ana Patricia Soto de Pontaza
 
  21 July 2005 Negotiations on Environmental Goods and Services: the Development Perspective. Los bienes ambientales: analisis para las negociaciones UNCTAD, Nuria Castells
 
  21 July 2005 Capacity-building in Negotiating EGS: Regional Overview from Central America and the Caribbean. Creacion De Capacidades De Negociacion En Bsa . Vision Regional Centro America , Republica Dominicana Y Cuba Raul Garrido
 
  21 July 2005 National Experience of Dominican Republic with Environmental Services. República Dominicana: Algunas perspectivas para las negociaciones de Servicios Relacionados con el Medio Ambiente International Resources Group, Catherin Cattafesta
 
  21 July 2005 National experience of Honduras with Environmental Services. Estudio de Caso: Servicios Ambientales en Honduras Trade and Environment Unit, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Suazo Navarro
 
  21 July 2005 Strengthening Institutional Capacity on Negotiating Trade and Environment Issues: the Case of Ecuador. Fortalecimiento Institucional De Las Capacidades De Negociacion En Temas De Comercio Y Medio Ambiente Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ecuador, Juan Carlos Estrella Sampedro
 
  21 July 2005 List of participants Secretariat
 
  21 July 2005 Introduction to Integrated Assessment of Trade-related Policies. Introducción a la Evaluación Integrada UNEP, Fulai Sheng
 
  21 July 2005 Regional Experiences with Assessment of Trade Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Experiencias Regionales sobre Evaluación de Políticas Comerciales en América Latina y Caribe Oficina de Desarrollo Sostenible y Medio Ambiente Organización de los Estados Americanos, Claudia S. de Windt
 
  21 July 2005 National Experiences with Assessment in Chile. Las Evaluaciones Integradas en la Práctica: experiencias y desafíos en la Región y Chile RIDES, Chile, Hernán Blanco
 
  21 July 2005 Presentación UNCTAD, Nuria Castells
 
  21 July 2005 Managing Global Environmental Challenges: The Role of Trade-Related Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements UNEP, Benjamin Simmons
 
  21 July 2005 Algunas reflexiones del estudio nacional sobre requerimientos ambientales y acceso al mercado Alina Revilla, Cuba
 
  21 July 2005 Relationship Between Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Environmental Goods and Services. Relaciones entre los Acueros Multilaterales de Medio Ambiente (AMUMAs) y BSA UNEP, Benjamin Simmons
 
  06 July 2005 Environmental Goods: Identifying Items of Export Interest to Developing Countries CBTF Briefing Note (Advance unedited draft for discussion) Secretariat
 
  18 June 2005 Draft Background Paper for Discussion, Environmental Goods and the Philippines UNEP
 
  12 April 2005 Labor de la UNCTAD en materia de bienes y servicios ambientales: nota informativa. TN/TE/INF/7, 5 de octubre de 2004 OMC
 
  12 April 2005 Draft Background Paper for Discussion – Environmental Goods and the ANDEAN Countries. Capítulos del Trade and Environment Review (2003), UNCTAD/DITC/TED/2003/4 UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 Article 1) Environmental Goods and Services: Defining Negotiations or Negotiation Definitions? UNCTAD, Alexey Vikhlyaev
 
  12 April 2005 Article 2) Environmental Goods and Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Central American and Caribbean Countries UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 Informe de la Reunión de expertos sobre definiciones y aspectos de los bienes y servicios ambientales en el comercio y el desarrollo. UNCTAD, TD/B/COM.1/59, TD/B/COM.1/EM.21/3, 27 de agosto de 2003 UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 Nota de antecedentes. Bienes y servicios ambientales en el comercio y el desarrollo sostenible. UNCTAD, TD/B/COM.1/EM.21/2, 5 de mayo de 2003 UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 Servicios Ambientales y Aspectos del Mercado UNCTAD, Luis Abugattas
 
  12 April 2005 Environmental goods: Trade statistics of developing countries. TD/B/COM.1/EM.21/CRP.1, 3 July 2003 UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 The Organic Guarantee System. The need and strategy for harmonisation and equivalent. Christina Westermayer and Bernward Geier IFOAM, FAO and UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 Grupo de Trabajo PNUMA-UNCTAD para el mejoramiento de la Capacidad en materia de Comercio, Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo. Terminos de Referencia Secretariat
 
  12 April 2005 Actividades de la UNCTAD en bienes y Servicios Ambientales – 2005 UNCTAD
 
  12 April 2005 Environmentally Sound Technologies for Sustainable Developement. Revised Draft. May 21, 2003 UNEP
 
  12 April 2005 Documento de Discusión: América Central: Servicios Ambientales, el AGCS, y el CAFTA Secretariat
 
  12 April 2005 Negociaciones en Bienes Ambientales en la OMC UNCTAD, Nuria Castells
 
  12 April 2005 Negociacion Sobre Servicios Ambientales: Perspectivas desde la Region Andina Maris Amparo Alban
 
  12 April 2005 Ecoetiquetado: Perspectivas y Retos para los Países en Desarrollo UNEP, María Cecilia Pineda
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación de la Secretaría General de la CAN. Servicios Ambientales y Comercio de Servicios en la Comunidad Andina CAN, Alberto Lora
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación del Estudio: Negociación sobre servicios ambientales: Perspectivas desde la región andina CEDA, María Amparo Alban, consultora
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación de Venezuela Venezuela
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación sobre Servicios y Bienes Ambientales desde la perspectiva ecológica Gonzalo Llosa
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación de la Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina. Agenda y Objetivos del Taller Comunidad Andina, Luisa Elena Guinand
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación de Colombia Javier Camargo
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación de Bolivia. Proyecto: Acción Climática Noel Kempff Mercado Betty Flores y Edwin Camacho
 
  12 April 2005 ESTUDIO SOBRE: “Situación de Bienes Ambientales en Nicaragua, Según Listas APEC y OCDE José Guillermo López López
 
  12 April 2005 Presentación de Ecuador Isidro Gutiérrez y Ing. María Augusta Gómez
 
  12 April 2005 Acceso de las Pymes al Mercado de Bienes y Servicios Ambientales CEPAL, Marianne Schaper
 
  11 January 2005 Report Secretariat
 
  11 January 2005 Flyer Secretariat
 
  11 January 2005 Newsletter Secretariat