UNEP-UNCTAD CBTF Regional Workshop on Post-Doha Trade and Environment Issues

New World Renaissance Hotel
Manila, Philippines, 16-17 June 2005

Held back-to-back with the World Trade Organization’s Regional Workshop on Trade and Environment for Asian and Pacific Countries

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), under the auspices of the UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF), organised a Regional Workshop on Post-Doha Trade and Environment Issues in Manila, Philippines, on 16 and 17 June 2005.

The workshop was held back-to-back with the World Trade Organisation’s Regional Workshop on Trade and Environment for Asian and Pacific Countries in Manila from 14 to 16 June. This CBTF workshop represented the latest in a number of similar back-to-back events developed in consultation with the WTO.

The objective of the CBTF workshop was to assist countries in the Asian and Pacific region to strengthen their national capacities to maximise the contribution that trade makes to sustainable development through increasing the integration of trade, environment and development objectives into national policy-making. In particular the workshop looked at the role of integrated assessments in ensuring mutually supportive trade and environment policies and maximising the sustainable gains from trade and trade liberalisation; the effect of environmental measures on market access for developing countries; and reduction of tariffs and elimination of non-tariff barriers for environmental goods and services, particularly those of export and developmental interest to developing countries.

Further information: http://www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf/cbtf2/F1.htm

Ulrich Hoffmann (Ph.D.), Trade and Sustainable Development Section, ITD, UNCTAD, ulrich.hoffmann@unctad.org

Benjamin Simmons, Economics and Trade Branch, DTIE, UNEP, benjamin.simmons@unep.ch