EVENTS

For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD's web calendar at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch.

Coming Up: 21 - 27 June

25-26 June, London, UK. CLIMATE CHANGE: POLITICS VERSUS ECONOMICS. Climate change is global, both in cause and consequence, and the response requires international action. Yet environmentalists, scientists, economists, foreign policy and security experts and investors all speak different languages and have different understandings of how best to tackle the issue. The aim of this conference, hosted by Chatham House, is to bring together well-respected representatives from each of these fields to discuss the connections and to debate whether it is international politics or economics or a mixture of both that will deliver a measurable progress in the global response to climate change. For information on the conference contact conferences@chathamhouse.org.uk.

25-26 June, Macau, China: 8th IEEM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PHARMACEUTICALS. This seminar, hosted by the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM), will feature lectures on the pharmaceutical industry in Asia, antitrust laws, and the effects of medicinal patents on public health in developing countries. For more information contact Beatrice Lam at beatrice@ieem.org.mo. internet: http://www.ieem.org.mo/courses/ipl/index.html.

25-27 June, Stanford, California. INTERNATIONAL ENERGY WORKSHOP (IEW). IEW is a network of global energy experts that meet annually to discuss a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on global as well as regional energy issues. The annual IEW meetings focus on energy assessments and try to understand the reasons for diverging views of development in the energy sector. For more information contact John Weyant at weyant@leland.stanford.edu. internet: http://www.internationalenergyworkshop.org/Workshop_2007.html

WTO Events

An updated list of forthcoming WTO meetings is posted at: http://www.wto.org/meets_public/meets_e.pdf. 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.

25 June: COMMITTEE ON BUDGET, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

27 June: TRADE POLICY REVIEW BODY - INDONESIA

27-28 June: COMMITTEE ON SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES

Other Upcoming Events

2-7 July, Rome, Italy. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION MEETING. This meeting, jointly hosted by the World Health Organisation and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, will consider proposed draft standards, the implementation of standards assessments, as well as relations between the Codex Alimentarius Commission and other international organisations. For more information contact the WHO/FAO office at +39 06 57051, or email at codex@fao.org. internet: http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/current.jsp?lang=en

3-12 July, Geneva, Switzerland. 11TH SESSION OF THE WIPO INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND GENETIC RESOURCES, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND FOLKLORE. This meeting, organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, will be the Committee's final working session before it reports to the WIPO Assemblies meeting in late 2007. For more information contact the IGC Secretariat at +41-22-338-8161 or email grtkf@wipo.int. internet: http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/

26-29 July, Ravello, Italy: 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGIES: NEW FRONTIERS AND PRODUCTS - ECONOMICS, POLICIES AND SCIENCE. Topics that will be discussed at this conference include the impact of agricultural biotechnology on international trade, biotechnology and developing countries, and regulation of biotechnology. The conference is being organised by the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR), Catholic University of Leuven, CEIS- University of Rome, Rutgers University, and the Economic Growth Center, Yale University. internet: http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/conferenze/icabr2007/

27-31 August, Vienna, Austria: UNFCCC DIALOGUE AND KYOTO PROTOCOL AWG 4. This will be the fourth workshop of the 'Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention' and the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG). internet: www.unfcc.int