Alliance of Small Island States Workshop on Trade, Sustainable Development and Small Island Developing States
Jamaica, 12 - 15 December, 2001

Presentations

• Presenter: Mr. Charles Arden-Clarke, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  1. Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE), Economics and Trade Unit (ETU):
  Economics and Trade Programme, Briefing for Permanent Missions, Geneva, 02 October, 2001
  2. UNEP-UNCTAD: Capacity Building Task Force for Trade, Environment and Development, Permanent Missions, Geneva, 2 October 2001
  3. Trade, Sustainable Development and SIDS: Seeking a Post-Doha Strategy
  4. Enhancing Synergies and Mutual Supportiveness Between MEAs and the WTO
  
  
• Presenter: Ms. Paola Deda, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  1. Trade related aspects of the Convention on Biological Diversity and their relationship with WTO
  2. The sustainable planning and management of tourism developments in vulnerable ecosystems: a common concern for the CBD and Small Island Developing States
  
  
• Presenter: Mr. Espen Ronneberg, Division for Sustainable Development, UN/DESA
  Agriculture, Natural Resources and Trade
  
  
• Presenter: Mr. Jake Werksman, FIELD
  Managing Tensions Between MEAs and WTO: Vulnerability and Dispute Settlement
  
  
• Presenter: Ms. Denise Forrest, NEPA EMS Consultant
  Jamaica's Programme Towards Achieving Sustainable Development - The National EMS Policy and Strategy
  
  
• Presenters: Mr. Anthony Hughes and Mr. Havelock Brewster, Commonwealth Secretariat
  Lowering the Threshold: Changing Private Investors' Perceptions by Reducing the Cost & Risk of Investment in Least Developed, Small and Vulnerable Economies
  
  
• Presenter: Mr. Taholo Kami, SIDSnet
  Small Island Developing States Network
  
  
• Presenter: Mr. Rene Vossenaar, UNCTAD
  Capacity Building Needs for Trade, Environment and Development
  
  
• Presenter: Prof. Lino Briguglio, University of Malta
  The Vulnerability Index
  
  
• Presenter: Mr. N.S. Georgiades, Cyprus
  Free Trade and the Environment in the Euro-Mediterranean Context

For questions relating to the workshop please contact Ms. Desna Solofa of the Samoa Mission at desnams@bigplanet.com, or Mr. Espen Ronneberg at the United Nations in New York at ronneberg@un.org.

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