Roundtable Discussion on WTO Negotiations on Environmental Goods – 14 March 2007, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, at GIIS/HEI
This roundtable represents the first of three events organised in the framework of the GIAN-supported project "Technology Transfer, Trade, and the Environment".
Speakers:
- Ambassador Toufiq Ali, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, Chair of the Committee on Trade and Environment in Special Session (WTO – CTESS);
- Professor J.D.A. Cuddy, Economics Department, GIIS;
- Mahesh Sugathan, ICTSD;
- Ron Steenblik, Research Director, Global Subsidies Initiative, IISD;
- Mike Ammann, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the WTO;
- Eduardo Tempone, Minister of the Permanent Mission of Argentina;
- Professor Anne Petitpierre, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva.
Discussants:
- Soledad Leal, Mexican Mission to the WTO;
- Ben Simmons, Legal Officer, UNEP-ETB;
- Connie Martinez, Independent Consultant;
- Pierre Portas, former Deputy Executive Director, Basel Convention;
- Maria Julia Oliva, PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva.
The roundtable will take place on Wednesday, 14 March from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Auditorium Jacques Freymond (AJF) at GIIS/HEI, rue de Lausanne 132, Geneva.
For more details, please contact Urs P. Thomas, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, tel.: +41 22 379 84 91 e-mail:
urs.thomas@droit.unige.ch
Related Project(s)
Annual Call for Projects 2006
Technology Transfer, Trade, and the Environment: Promoting Synergy for Sustainable Development among the World Trade Organisation and Multilateral Environmental Agreements