Report from Meeting on 17th June

Th.Ruddy's Report

Report from the Open Brainstorming Session with Pascal Lamy on 17th June
WTI - ICTSD Trade Policy Dialogue - Looking
Ahead - The Need for Fresh Thinking on the WTO

Official announcement of the meeting

In reply to a question about Pascal Lamy's interest in impact assessment (IA) he replied that developing countries are still suspicious of green protectionism. Then he spoke of continuing to pursue a form of IA through WTO's work on:

trade's impact on climate with UNEP on 26.6.09 -- indeed this turned out to be an embargoed story "WTO signals backing for border taxes" by Fiona Harvey published by he Financial Times in London on June 25 (PDF). This may prove to be the the starting gun for the Border Carbon Adjustment that has been discussed for years now, one example being a recent paper by Aaron Cosbey (link to PDF)
the new authoritative UNEP / WTO document, 2009, 200 pages, "Trade and Climate Change" (PDF) co-authored by Ludivine Tamiotti, Robert Teh, Vesile Kulaçoğlu, Anne Olhoff, Benjamin Simmons and Hussein Abaza

trade's impact on employment with the ILO, especially the informal-sector / trade nexus with the ILO in a forthcoming statement.

Updated: 27th June 2009

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