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1. Capacity Building:

Enhancing institutional and human capacities for integrated decision making.

2. Manuals and Policy Tools:

Incorporating the environment into economics and trade policies.

3. Partnerships and Consensus Building:

ETB works intensively with various organisations to develop synergies and build partnerships.

4. Enhancing Awareness:

Clarifying the relationships between trade, environment and development in order to design mutually supportive policies.
5. International Cooperation:
Enhancing cooperation between UNEP, governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.

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UNEP's preparations for the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference
Doha, Qatar - 9th - 13th November, 2001

Introduction

The following materials have been assembled on this website to outline UNEP's preparations for the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference.

UPDATE (November 15, 2001):
Texts from the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference now available for download


Press Releases:
November 15, 2001 - NAIROBI:
Environmental Issues make Significant Progress at Key Trade Talks

November 9, 2001 - DOHA:
Environmental issues at the Doha WTO Trade Talks

Summary Papers

Two papers, entitled "Economic Reforms, Trade Liberalization and the Environment: a Synthesis of UNEP Country Projects" and "Enhancing Synergies and Mutual Supportiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the WTO" summarise key elements of the work undertaken over the last two years by UNEP's Economics and Trade Branch on concrete linkages between trade, environment and development.

Meeting Summaries

The Economics and Trade Branch of UNEP has organised five meetings between June 1999 and June 2001 to bring together the Secretariats of the World Trade Organization (WTO), multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and UNEP. Governments and NGOs have also been represented at the last four of these meetings. The Chairmans' Summaries and reports from this "MEA-WTO process", are provided.

UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF)

This task force is currently responding to capacity-building requests from developing countries and economies in transition on trade, environment and development issues and policy-making.


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