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Southern Agenda Phase II: Regional Consultation on Trade and Environment in South/Southeast Asia

Kandalama, Sri Lanka: 14-15 January 2004
organised by ICTSD, IISD, SDPI and IUCN - Sri Lanka

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Programme

13 January

19:30 Welcome Dinner

14 January

Morning session

09:30 - 10:00
Introductory remarks - Sajid Kazmi (SDPI) and Shiranee Yasaratne (IUCN- Sri Lanka)

10:00 - 10:10
Participant introduction

10:10 - 10:40
Trade and Environment: the International Context
(i) Introduction to the Southern Agenda - Mark Halle (IISD)
(ii) Trade and Environment in the WTO agenda: Doha & Cancun - Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz (ICTSD)

10:40 - 11:00
Discussion

11:00 - 11:15
Coffee

11:15 - 11:45
Presentation of the Southern Agenda framework
-Results of the first phase of the Southern Agenda - Adil Najam (Tufts)

#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?

11:45 - 12:15
Presentation of Background Paper: The WTO, Trade and Sustainable Development: Principles and Issues - Shaheen Rafi Khan (SDPI)

12:15 - 12:30
Discussion

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

Afternoon session

14:00 - 14:15
Introduction of methodologies for group sessions

14:15 - 15:30
Discussion of question #1 in working groups and plenary

15:30 - 15:45
Coffee

15:45 - 18:00
Discussion of question #1 in working groups and plenary, and conclusions

18:00-
Dinner

15 January

Morning session

09:30 - 10:00
Recap of Day 1 & presentation of Think Piece - Adil Najam

10:00 - 10:15
Discussion

10:15 - 11:15
Discussion of question #2 in working groups and plenary

11:15 - 11:30
Coffee

11:30 - 13:00
Discussion of question #3 in working groups and plenary

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

Afternoon session

14:00 - 14:30
Plenary discussion of working group results

14:30 - 15:30
Process issues/ framework conditions - How can an agenda be elaborated and implemented?

15:30 - 15:45
Coffee

15:45 - 17:30
Synthesis and Conclusions

 

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