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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 economic and trade policies

- Manuals
- Policy Tools
- - Energy Subsidy Reform
- - Fishery Subsidies
- - TRIPS
- - Precautionary Principles
- - Integrated Assessment for Sustainable Trade

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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Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Paper

Economics and Trade Branch (ETB)

Year of publication: 2001




Status:

Draft documents for discussion at an ETB workshop on 29 June 2001 were made available prior to the meeting.

Who might be interested in this document?

- TRIPS negotiators
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiators.
- Environmental Protection and Development Interest Groups.

Why?

- This document clarifies and provides views on issues such as Article 27.3(b), pharmaceutical interests, indigenous knowledge, systems to reward small-scale innovators, biopiracy,

- It also provides input on the ways one can provide input into the TRIPS review process.

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