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Southern Agenda Phase II: Regional Consultation on Trade and Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa

Protea Hotel, Stellenbosch, South Africa: 10-11 June 2004
organised by ICTSD, IISD and ACTS and TRALAC

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Programme / Agenda

9 June

19:30 Welcome Dinner


10 June

09:00 - 9:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Introductory remarks (Evans Kituyi, ACTS, and Frieda Lloyd, TRALAC)

10:00 - 10:40 Presentation of the Southern Agenda framework

Trade and Environment in the WTO agenda: context, challenges and prospects from Marrakech to Doha
Mark Halle

Results of the first phase of the Southern Agenda
Adil Najam

#1. What are the most important concerns and most pressing priorities for the South in general, and the region in particular, in terms of the current trade and environment agenda in the WTO and especially with regard to the Doha Mandate (i.e., the entire Doha mandate and not just the CTE issues)?

#2. What innovative options can be envisaged that would meet the South's, and the region's, trade and environment concerns in the immediate and ongoing trade and environment negotiations (i.e., in the current round)?

#3. Thinking about the longer term trade and environment debate (i.e., future rounds), what would be the form and contents of a trade and environment agenda that the South can own and advance as its own?

10:40-11:10 Discussion

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

12:00-12:30 Discussion

11:30 - 12:00 Presentation of Background Paper (George Sikoyo, ACTS)

12:00 - 12:45 Discussion

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Discussion (continued)

15:00 - 15:15 Introduction of methodologies for group sessions

15:15 - 17:00 Discussion in working groups

17:00 - 18:00 Plenary discussion of working group results

19:30 Dinner


11 June

09:00 - 09:30 Trade and Environment in the WTO: Challenges and Opportunities (Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, ICTSD)

09:30 - 10:30 Questions and discussions

10:30 - 12:30 Discussion in working groups

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Plenary discussion of consultation results

16:00 - 17:00 Synthesis and Conclusions

17:00 - Wrap-up.

 

 

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