1. Workshop on Trade and Environment Post Doha San José de Costa Rica 1-3 July 2002 Implications for development, UNCTAD contribution

2. UNCTAD activities “Technical assistance and capacity building for developing countries, especially LDCs, and economies in transition in support of their participation in the WTO Post-Doha work programme” (UNCTAD/RMS/TCS/1). Capacity-Building Task Force for Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF) UNCTAD/FIELD project on Building Capacity for Improved Policy Making and Negotiation on Key Trade and Environment Issues

3. UNCTAD post-Doha Characteristics: Demand-driven (priorities expressed by Geneva-based delegated and capital-based officials from developing countries); Takes account of economic integration processes as well as the need to build supply capacities; and Tailor-made to the national/regional needs of each beneficiary developing country or region

4. UNCTAD post-Doha  Brainstorming on the negotiating mandates in the area of environment;  Development of a positive agenda on trade, environment and development;  Support to enhance understanding of development aspects of specific policy instruments under multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and implications of proposals; interface between agriculture and the environment;

5. UNCTAD post-Doha  Environmental goods and services;  Environmentally preferable products, in particular organic agricultural products.  Environmental and SPS requirements and market access;  Traditional knowledge (TK) – support to effective participation in discussions in WTO, WIPO and CBD;  Training on trade and environment Impact assessments.

6. CBTF  CBTF projects  WTO regional T&E seminars  WSSD

7. Paragraph 19: TRIPS Council for TRIPS, to examine, inter alia: The relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity The protection of traditional knowledge and folklore Development dimension TRIPS Council to be guided by objectives and principles set out in Articles 7 and 8 and to take fully into account the development dimension

8. Paragraph 19: TRIPS Seminar in New Delhi, April 2002 Developing countries working together in several forums (CBD, WIPO, FAO, WTO, UNCTAD), in particular on a multilateral framework for sui generis systems

9. Fisheries subsidies Paragraph 28 or 31 Negotiations Clarify and improve WTO disciplines on fisheries subsidies Development dimension Taking into account the importance of this sector to developing countries.

10. Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Paragraph 31 (i) Negotiations The relationship between existing WTO rules and specific trade obligations set out in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), para 31 Development dimension Take into account the needs of developing and least-developed countries

11. Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Paragraph 31 (i) UNCTAD activities Policy dialogues “Positive” or “enabling” measures

12. Environmental Good and Services, Paragraph 31(iii) Negotiations The reduction or, as appropriate, elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to environmental goods and services Development dimension Take into account the needs of developing and least-developed countries

13. Environmental Good and Services, Paragraph 31(iii) Issues: Definition? National development of EGS in developing countries and their participation in world trade

14. CTE, Paragraph 32 Effect of environmental measures on market access, especially in relation to developing countries, in particular LDCs; Situations in which the elimination or reduction of trade restrictions and distortions would benefit trade, the environment and development; The relevant provisions of the TRIPS; and Labelling requirements for environmental purposes.

15. CTE, Paragraph 32 Project on Standards and Trade Expert Meeting on Environmental Requirements and International Trade (2- 4 October 2002)

16. CTE and CTD (Paragraph 51) The Committee on Trade and Development and the Committee on Trade and Environment shall, within their respective mandates, each act as a forum to identify and debate developmental and environmental aspects of the negotiations, in order to help achieve the objective of having sustainable development appropriately reflected.