| The following
programme has been divided into a series of panels which represent
the substantive issues addressed at the Cancún negotiations.
At the conference, each topic will be addressed from the perspective
of the environment and sustainable development agenda. |
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Programme |
| 30
October 2003 |
| 8.30 |
Registration |
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Welcome
|
| 9.00 |
Hans-Peter
Wittig, Federal Foreign Office - Germany |
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R.
Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic - Institute for International and
European Environmental Policy - Germany |
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First Session:
General Agreement on Trade in Services |
| 9.30 |
Chair: Lakshmi Puri,
UNCTAD |
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"The
WTO Services Negotiations"
Anna Sophie Herken,
Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour - Germany |
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"The
right to water and trade in services: Assessing
the impacts of GATS negotiations on water regulation"
Markus Krajewski, University of Potsdam, Germany
Elisabeth
Türk, Centre for International Environmental Law - Switzerland |
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"Cancún:
Victory for Whom? Measuring the Impact of the Fifth Ministerial
on Trade in Services"
Elizabeth Benson,
Energy Associates - USA |
| 10.30 |
Questions and Discussion |
| 11.10 |
Second Session:
Investment Liberalisation |
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Chair: Detlef Lingemann,
Federal Foreign Office - Germany |
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"Multilateral
Investment Rules after Cancún"
Konrad von Moltke, Institute for Environmental Studies
- The Netherlands |
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"Will
International Investment Rules Shrink Policy Space for Sustainable
Development? Evidence from the Electricity Sector"
Albert H. Cho, World Resources Institute - USA |
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"Balancing
Stakeholder Interest when Investing for the Long Term"
Peter Knoedel, BP
Germany - Germany |
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"Investor
rights vis à vis state's right to regulate - the case
of Uganda"
Alice Ruhweza, National
Environment Management Authority - Uganda |
| 12.10 |
Questions
and Discussion |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch Break |
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|
| 14.30 |
Third Session:
Intellectual Property Rights |
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Chair:
Malte Hauschild, Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour
- Germany |
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"The
Bilateral IP Agreements"
Jean Frédéric Morin, Unisféra International
Centre/Institut du Développement Durable et des Relationes
Internationales - Canada/France |
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"IPRs
and Environmental Protection after Cancún"
Christine Godt, Centre for European Policy and Law -
Germany |
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"Global
Political Economy of TRIPs Negotiations"
Anitha Ramanna, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research - India |
| 15.30 |
Questions
and Discussion |
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|
| 16.10 |
Coffee Break |
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|
| 16.40 |
Fourth Session:
Multilateral Environmental Agreements and WTO Rules |
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Chair:
Alexandra Wandel, Friends of the Earth Europe |
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"WTO
negotiations on the relationship between MEAs and WTO rules:
where do we stand?"
Laurence
Graff - European Commission |
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"The
Relationship between MEA's and WTO Rules in the Negotiations
on Par. 31i DDA"
Georg
Luy, Federal Foreign Office - Germany |
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"Information
Exchange and Observer Status: The World Trade Organisation
and Multilateral Environmental Agreements"
Matthias Buck, University
of Hamburg - Germany |
| 17.40 |
Questions
and Discussion |
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|
18.30
20.30 |
Reception
by the Federal Foreign Office in the Foyer of the
Europasaal
Reception address
by Otto Lampe, Federal Foreign Office - Germany
End
of first conference day |
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October 2003 |
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Fifth Session
: Agriculture Liberalisation |
| 9.00 |
Chair: Heino
von Meyer, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) |
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"Integrating
sustainable agriculture and rural development with nature
conservation in Poland in the light of trade liberalisation"
Dorota Metera and
Mariusz Maciejczak, IUCN Office for Central Europe |
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"Movement
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Policies: Cooperative Policy
Alternatives to address the Farm Income Crisis"
Kelly Tiller, The
University of Tennessee - USA |
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"Addressing
non-trade concerns within the WTO Agreement on Agriculture"
Alexandra González-Calatayud,
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - United Kingdom |
| 10.00 |
Questions and Discussion |
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|
| 10.45 |
Coffee Break |
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|
| 11.15 |
Sixth
Session: Instruments for Consumer Policy |
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Chair:
Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Germany |
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"Trade
Instruments for Social Policy: An Overview of New Developments"
Joost Pauwelyn, Duke University School of Law - USA |
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"Precaution
through Process in World Trade - Consumer Policy, Environmental
and Sustainable Impact Assessments of Trade Policy and the
WTO"
Markus Gehring, University of Hamburg - Germany |
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"Standard
Setting: A Force for Sustainable Development or Not"
Michael Northrop, Rockefeller Brothers Fund - USA
Due
to scheduling conflicts, Michael Northrop was unable to present
this paper at the Conference |
| 12.15 |
Questions and Discussion |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch
Break |
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Seventh Session:
Human Rights |
| 14.00 |
Chair:
Malini Mehra, Centre for Social Markets - India |
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"A
tale of two human rights in the WTO: Right to Food and the
Right to Health"
Kevin Gray, Royal Institute of International Affairs
- United Kingdom |
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"With
a Little Help from my Friends – How a Human Rights Approach
Can Advance the Public Interest Agenda in the WTO"
Caroline Dommen, 3D (-> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable
Economy) - Switzerland |
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Peter Rothen, Federal
Foreign Office - Germany |
| 15.00 |
Questions
and Discussion |
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|
| 15.40 |
Coffee Break |
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Conference
Closing |
| 16.00 |
Final
discussion "Moving forward from Cancún" |
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Chair: Richard Tarasofsky,
Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental
Policy - Germany |
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Panelists: |
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Lakshmi Puri, UNCTAD
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Konrad von Moltke, Institute
for Environmental Studies - The Netherlands |
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Eugen Wollfarth, Federal
Foreign Office - Germany |
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Detlev Brauns, Federal
Ministry of Economics and Labour - Germany |
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| 17.00 |
End
of the conference |
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