The International Workshop on Post-2012 Climate and Trade Policies

8th – 9th September 2008 • Co-organised with UNEP and the EU funded Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies project

The International Workshop on Post-2012 Climate and Trade Policies is being convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Economics and Trade Branch and the EU-funded ADAM project (‘Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy’). It aims to build on previous UNEP trade and climate change dialogues by bringing together a range of leading experts to actively discuss trade and economic strategies in a post-2012 world and on the future interplay between the UN climate regime and the World Trade Organisation.

Specifically, the purpose of the Post-2012 Climate and Trade Policies workshop is threefold:

  • to examine potential key elements of a future climate regime that have implications for the international trading system;
  • to discuss various approaches through which the world trade regime can address or otherwise affect climate change in a post-2012 world; and
  • to explore opportunities for synergistic interplay between the negotiating agendas of both regimes, i.e. the Doha Agenda and the Bali Road Map.

For further information, please refer to the website at www.unep.ch/etb/events/2008_Post-2012ClimateTradePoliciesSept08_09.php.