RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: CTEI AT THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, GENEVA, 22-23 OCTOBER 2009
Global Challenges at the Intersection of Trade, Energy and the Environment
The Trade, Energy and Environment's conference on “Global Challenges at the Intersection of Trade, Energy and the Environment” took place at the WTO on 22-23 October 2009.
Conference background & goals
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is how to meet global energy demand in a way that respects both economic development and environmental concerns. This conference will examine how this challenge can be met consistent with international trade and investment rules (on, for example, tariffs, services trade, taxation, transit, transportation, transfer of technology, subsidies and pricing).
The goal of this conference is to gather energy industry experts, trade policy specialists and environmental policy authorities to review current rules of international cooperation, both within and outside the WTO framework, as they are gaining new relevance within the triangle of trade, energy and the environment. The conference seeks to identify practical issues faced by policy makers and businesses within this system of interaction and to determine where further clarification, research, changes or novel approaches are required to address current and future challenges.
A core objective of this exploratory conference is to initiate a dialogue between trade, energy and environmental experts whereby energy and environmental experts obtain better insight into the relevance and operation of international rules, WTO or otherwise, and trade experts gain a clearer understanding of the main concerns and outstanding debates in the energy and environment fields.
The key outcome of the conference will be the identification of core questions for further research and to construct a clearer framework to pursue future debates and cooperation at the intersection of trade, energy and the environment.
Programme
Thursday 22nd October 2009
9.15-10.00 |
Welcome and Opening Statements Patrick Low, Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO H.E. Luizius Wasescha, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the WTO John Gault, President of John Gault SA; formerly Managing Director, IEDConsultants SA and Chief Economist, International Energy Development Corporation (IEDC) (now part of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation) Audio: Listen to the opening remarks — Patrick Low, Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO — H.E. Luizius Wasescha, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the WTO and John Gault, President of John Gault SA > help
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10.00-11.30 |
Panel 1: Setting the Stage: The Landscape of Existing International Cooperation Chair: Joost Pauwelyn, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
Audio: Listen to panel 1 — Setting the Stage: The Landscape of Existing International Cooperation > help
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11.30-13.00 |
Panel 2: Import, Export and Production Restrictions on Energy Goods & Services Chair: Daniel Crosby, Partner, Budin & Partners, Geneva
Audio: Listen to panel 2 — Import, Export and Production Restrictions on Energy Goods & Services > help
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14.30-15.10 |
Afternoon Address H.E. Shaikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates
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15.15-16.45 | Panel 3: Transport and Transit Chair: Matthias Finger, Professor and Chair, Management of Network Industries, College of Management of Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Audio: Listen to panel 3 — Transport and Transit > help
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16.45-18.15 | Panel 4: Environmental Issues in the Trade and Energy Context Chair: Claude Martin, Vice chairman International Institute for Sustainable Development — IISD, former Director General WWF-International
Audio: Listen to panel 4 — Environmental Issues in the Trade and Energy Context > help
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18.30-19.30 | Keynote Address and Questions Pascal Lamy, Director General, WTO > Speech
Audio: Listen to the Keynote Address and Questions — Pascal Lamy, Director General, WTO > help |
Friday 23rd October 2009
9.30-11.00 |
Panel 5: Subsidies and Pricing Chair: Gary Horlick, Attorney at Law
Audio: Listen to panel 5 — Subsidies and Pricing > help
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11.00-13.00 |
Closing Session: Thinking Ahead & Framing an Agenda for Future Action and Research Chair: Andre Schneider, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Economic Forum Panel members: George Abi Saab, Former WTO Appellate Body member and Professor Emeritus, Graduate Institute, Geneva Richard Baldwin, Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration John Gault, John Gault SA Patrick Low, Director, WTO Joost Pauwelyn, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European Institute, Florence Audio: Listen to the Closing Session: Thinking Ahead & Framing an Agenda for Future Action and Researchopening remarks > help
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Conference Organising Committee
Richard Baldwin, Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
Theresa Carpenter, Executive Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute, Geneva
Daniel Crosby Partner, Budin & Partners, Geneva
John Gault John Gault SA
Patrick Low, Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO
Joost Pauwelyn, Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
Institutions
World Trade Organization — WTO
The Graduate Institute, Geneva
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is an institution of higher education and research dedicated to the cross-cutting disciplines of international relations and development studies. The Institute, keen to draw on the synergies offered by its two fields of specialisation, offers independent and rigorous analyses of current and emerging global issues with a view to promoting international cooperation and making a contribution to the development of less fortunate societies. This small and selective institution that owes its reputation to: the quality of its cosmopolitan faculty, the strength of its core disciplines (Economics, History, Law, Political Science and Development Studies), its policy-relevant approach to international affairs, and its bilingual English-French education programmes.
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration — CTEI
The Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) is the Graduate Institute's Centre of Excellence for research on international trade. Established in February 2008, the interdisciplinary Centre brings together the research activities of eminent professors of economics, law and political science in the area of trade, economic integration and globalisation. The Centre serves as a vehicle for disseminating research results within the “real world” and enables discussion and dialogue between the global research community, including the Institute student body and research centres in the developing world. A core goal for the future is to foster genuine, interdisciplinary research and to work across disciplines on solutions-orientated studies that address the big societal questions of our day.