UNEP-UNCTAD Trade-related Capacity-Building Workshop
Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
July 19-21, 2005
This regional workshop
aimed to strengthen the capacities of Latin American and Caribbean
countries to maximise the contribution that trade makes to
sustainable development through increasing the integration of trade,
environment and development objectives into national policymaking.
Claudia de Windt, who attended on behalf of the OAS Office for
Sustainable Development and Environment, presented regional and
national experiences in the
Assessment of Trade Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and
highlighted some of the OAS contributions in this area.
The workshop looked at
the role of integrated assessment in ensuring the development of
mutually supportive trade and environment policies, and at the
current negotiations on environmental goods and services,
particularly those issues relevant to developing countries in the
region.
Two
officials from each country in the region - one responsible for
environment issues and one for trade issues � were invited to
participate in the workshop. The
workshop was held back-to-back with the World Trade Organisation�s
Regional Workshop on Trade and Environment for Latin American and
Caribbean countries, from 19-21 July. The final report of the
meeting is available at the following link: http://www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf/events/santodomingo/finalreport.pdf
Agenda
For more
information on this workshop, visit:
http://www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf/cbtf2/F1.htm
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