EVENTS
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar. If you would like to submit an event, please email us.
Coming Up: 2-8 December
6 December, Copenhagen, Denmark: SEMINAR ON WTO, TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. This seminar is organised by the ‘WTO, Trade & Development’ network, an initiative based at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). It will include an introduction by the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Mark Halle and sessions on trade and the environment, on the Doha Mandate and Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalisation in Mexico: Lessons for the WTO and a discussion. The afternoon is part of the DIIS’ monthly ‘Trade Mondays’ seminar series. For further information, contact Stefano Ponte, tel: +45 3269 8787; fax: +45 3269 8700; email; Internet.
8-10 December, Islamabad, Pakistan: SEVENTH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE. This conference is organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and will provide a forum for dialogues on sustainable development and governance with South Asian practitioners and policy makers. It will examine the relations between various dimensions of sustainable development and governance. The speakers will discuss how problems and issues in South Asia can be dealt with effectively at various levels based on prior experience of successful policy interventions. For further information, contact Uzma T. Haroon, tel: +92-51-2278134; fax: +92-51-2278135; email; Internet.
WTO
An updated list of forthcoming WTO meetings is posted online. Please bear in mind that dates and times of WTO meetings are often changed, and that the WTO does not always announce the important informal meetings of the different bodies. Unless otherwise indicated, all WTO meetings are held at the WTO, Centre William Rappard, rue de Lausanne 154, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland, and are open to WTO Members and accredited observers only.
2 December: WTO INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK STEERING COMMITTEE.
3 December: WTO COUNCIL FOR TRADE IN SERVICES - SPECIAL SESSION.
6 December: WTO WORKING PARTY ON THE ACCESSION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
6 & 8 December: WTO NEGOTIATING GROUP ON MARKET ACCESS.
Other Upcoming
12-14 December, Noordwijk, Netherlands: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT. This high-profile event is being organised by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, in close collaboration with the World Bank, UNDP and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. The conference will address investment needs in the energy sector, barriers to investment and ways of overcoming them. It aims to put energy more firmly on the development agenda and to explore the contributions that can be made by the various local and international stakeholders. For further information, contact the Secretariat of Energy for Development, tel: 31-70-339-1812; fax: 31-70-339-1306; email; Internet.
12-14 December, San Francisco, US: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ERADICATING POVERY THROUGH PROFIT: MAKING BUSINESS WORK FOR THE POOR. Keynote addresses, panels, workshops and other presentations during this international conference organised by the World Resources Institute (WRI) will focus on private sector approaches to development and ask how business can "do good and do well" at the same time. For further information, contact the World Resources Institute, tel: +1-202-729-7600; fax: +1-202-729-7610; email; Internet.
10-14 January 2005, Port Louis, Mauritius: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT WORLD FORUM ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS): CHALLENGES, PROSPECTS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. This Forum will be held as a side event during the International Meeting (IM) on the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS. In addition to contributing to the IM, this event seeks to mobilise the scientific community to engage in research, policy analysis, as well as to design programmes of action to solve major problems faced by SIDS on a continuous basis. The Forum also aims to raise global public awareness on SIDS issues through research, education, and the dissemination of new knowledge. For further information, contact the International Research Foundation for Development, tel: 1-763-689-2963; fax: 1-763-689-0560; email; Internet.
18-22 January 2005, Kobe-Hyogo, Japan: WORLD CONFERENCE ON DISASTER REDUCTION. This conference is organised by the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat and aims to increase support for the implementation of disaster risk reduction strategies at all levels and in particular its integration into development planning processes. The conference is the culmination of a the ten-year review of disaster reduction activities since the first World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, which took place in Yokohama, Japan in 1994. For further information, contact Helena Molin Valdes, tel: 41-22-917-2776; fax: 41-22-917-0563; email; Internet.