Description
The first
phase of the Southern Agenda project sought to gather and present Southern
perspectives on the trade and environment link, building on consultations
with developing country trade policy representatives in Geneva (click
here for further details).
Phase
II, which builds upon the results of Phase I, aims to respond to the opportunity
offered by the Doha mandate, to strengthen the capacity of trade negotiators,
key national policymakers and regional actors in developing countries
to determine priorities for promoting and negotiating proactive positions
which reflect their own ‘Southern Agenda’ on environment and
trade in the multilateral trading system
The project
is based on six regional meetings -- of which the Dakar Consultation is
the first -- that aim to bring forward regional priorities in trade and
environment. The Consultations, which are designed for approximately 20
expert participants, will feed into a Geneva-based process involving WTO
negotiators, in order to ensure equitable and sustainable trade policies
and agreements that truly reflect regional priorities for environment.
Through
providing a space for focused discussions, this Consultation aimed to
establish:
- (a) The most
important concerns and priorities for the South in general, and the
region in particular, in terms of the current trade and environment
agenda in the WTO;
- (b) Innovative
options that would meet the South’s, and the region’s, trade
and environment concerns in the immediate and ongoing trade and environment
negotiations; and
- (c) The form
and contents of a longer-term trade and environment agenda that the
South can own and advance as its own.
Meeting outcomes and
documents are posted here.
Photos:
Southern Agenda II
- Dakar Consultation participants
M. Mbodj, M. Samb,
M. Dieye
Youba Sokona, Amb.
Yolande Biké, ICTSD Executive Director Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz
Mme. Da Costa, Bakary
Fofana, Adil Najam
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