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The Expert Meeting on Traditional
Knowledge was held in Geneva on 30 October - 1
November 2000. See: Further
information
Havana
Discussion Papers
now available !
Havana
Workshop on Trade and Environment (30 May - 2 June
2000)
Also
see
Note
to correspondents on the meeting
 UNEP
and UNCTAD Establish Capacity Building Task Force on Trade,
Environment and Development (CBTF)
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See Press
Release on the Establishment of CBTF
Also see : Terms
of Reference for the CBTF
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See Press
Release on the First Year Activities of the UNEP-UNCTAD
Capacity Building Task Force on Trade Environment and
Development (CBTF)
Also see : Overview
of Indicative Activities Proposed for the First Year (2000-2001)
- See
Call
for Proposals on Thematic Research, Country Projects,
Training, Policy Dialogue for the CBTF
Also see : Outline
for CBTF Project Proposals
CBTF
web-site coming soon at :
www.unep-unctad.org/cbtf/
New
publication released: Monograph
on the Role of Positive/Enabling Measures in MEAs
Pre-UNCTAD
X Seminar "Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sustainable
Development" was held 15 November 1999 in Geneva. See:
UNCTAD Note
to Correspondents No. 35 and background
information and documents.
First workshop for the project "Strengthening Research
and Policy-Making Capacity on Trade and Environment in
Developing Countries" was held in Los Banos, Philippines,
11-13 November 1999.
See UNCTAD Note
to Correspondents No. 34 covering the above workshop
and three recently-launched UNCTAD trade and environment
technical cooperation projects.
A
joint UNCTAD-International Rubber Study Group Workshop
on "Rubber and the Environment: Opportunities for Internalizing
Environmental Costs and Benefits in Prices of Rubber and
Rubber Goods" was held on 7 November 1999 in Veracruz,
Mexico.
Contact Ulrich Hoffmann
for more information.
Link to UNCTAD
Press Release on the launching of the above project,
funded by the UK s Department for International Development
(DFID). Countries
involved include: Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba,
India, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia and
Uganda. The project is being
implemented by UNCTAD in collaboration with the Foundation
for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD).
Workshop launching the project was held in Geneva on 24-26
June 1999. See: Report
of the meeting.
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