MEAs-WTO Relationship

  Strengthening the mutual supportiveness of trade and environment policies is required to maximize their joint contribution to sustainable development. Understanding the relationship between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and international trade is a key aspect in building this mutual supportiveness. There is, however, sometimes a lack of understanding between the policymakers active in these two separate fields. The CBTF helps to bring policymakers from trade and environment fields together to discuss ways of ensuring that MEAs and trade maximize their synergies and minimize areas of potential tension. The CBTF will continue to convene workshops back-to-back with WTO seminars to discuss these issues, and will support country-level projects focused on promoting the mutual supportiveness of MEAs and international trade.  

MEAs-WTO relationship events

  Date Location Title of MEAs-WTO relationship event    
  16 June 2005 Manila, The Philippines Workshop on Post-Doha Trade and Environment Issues More ...  
  05 October 2004 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Training Workshop on Enhancing Policy Co-ordination on Trade and Environment Issues: Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements Containing Trade-Related Measures More ...  

MEA-WTO materials

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  Date Title of MEA-WTO material Author
Handout
Ppt
Study
  
  18 June 2005 Environmental Concerns, Market Access and Export Competitiveness of Philippine Fresh Mangoes HILAS
 
  18 June 2005 Overview of Discussions at the Recent National Stakeholders’ Workshop on Definition, Criteria, Issues and Identification of Environmental Goods Philippine Council
 
  18 June 2005 Report UNEP
 
  18 June 2005 UNEP Experiences with Integrated Assessment in Asia and the Pacific UNEP
 
  18 June 2005 The Role of Assessment in Ensuring Mutually Supportive Trade and Environment Policies UNEP
 
  18 June 2005 India - Approaches to the negotiations under Para 31(iii) UNEP
 
  18 June 2005 Trade and Sustainable Agricultural Practices: Issues, Challenges and Solutions QA Plus
 
  05 October 2004 Study: Findings of the Country Case Study National Policy Co-Ordination in Cambodia Chuon
 
  05 October 2004 Short meeting report Secretariat
 
  05 October 2004 Managing Global Environmental Challenges - The Role of Trade-Related Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements - English UNEP
 
  05 October 2004 Relationship Between Trade-Related Measures in MEAs and the Rules of the World Trade Organization - Khmer
 
  05 October 2004 The Montreal Protocol - Objectives, Trade Measures, Compliance Assistance, and Implementation Issue - English UNEP
 
  05 October 2004 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species: An Introduction CITES
 
  05 October 2004 The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal - Objectives, Trade Measures, Compliance Assistance, and Implementation Issues - English and Khmer BCRC, Sulistyowati
 
  05 October 2004 Closing remarks Secretariat
 
  05 October 2004 National Policy Coordination in Cambodia for Implementing and Further Developing the Basel Convention, CITES, the CBD and the Montreal Protocol - Findings of a Country Case Study - Khmer
 
  05 October 2004 The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Biosafety Protocol - Objectives, Trade Measures, Compliance Assistance, and Implementation Issues - Khmer CBD