Southern Agenda Phase II: Consulta Regional sobre Comercio y Medio Ambiente en America del Sur / Regional Consultation on Trade and Environment in South America Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, Santa Cruz, Chile: 10-11 October 2003 organised by ICTSD, IISD and RIDES

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• Background Paper: Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development in the South American Region. By Nicola Borregard, RIDES, October 2003
  
  
• Think Piece: Trade and Environment Negotiations: A Southern View. By Pedro da Motta Veiga, DRAFT - October 2003
  
  
• Final Meeting Report

  Description

  The first phase of the Southern Agenda project sought to gather and present Southern perspectives on the trade and environment link, building on consultations with developing country trade policy representatives in Geneva (click here for further details).

  Phase II, which builds upon the results of Phase I, aims to respond to the opportunity offered by the Doha mandate, to strengthen the capacity of trade negotiators, key national policymakers and regional actors in developing countries to determine priorities for promoting and negotiating proactive positions which reflect their own ‘Southern Agenda’ on environment and trade in the multilateral trading system

  The project is based on six regional meetings -- of which the Santa Cruz consultation is the second -- that aim to bring forward regional priorities in trade and environment. The consultations, which are designed for approximately 20 expert participants, will feed into a Geneva-based process involving WTO negotiators, in order to ensure equitable and sustainable trade policies and agreements that truly reflect regional priorities for environment.

  Through providing a space for focused discussions, this consultation aimed to establish:

  (a) The most important concerns and priorities for the South in general, and the region in particular, in terms of the current trade and environment agenda in the WTO;

  (b) Innovative options that would meet the South’s, and the region’s, trade and environment concerns in the immediate and ongoing trade and environment negotiations; and

  (c) The form and contents of a longer-term trade and environment agenda that the South can own and advance as its own.

Photos


Participants convene for introductory session


Hernán Blanco (RIDES) facilitates post-breakout group discussion


Group photo

 

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