20 years of building pathways to sustainable development
28 April 2015, WTO Headquarters

Programme

UNEP and WTO Opening Session

The session will feature opening remarks by Mr Roberto Azevêdo, WTO Director-General, and Mr Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, reflecting on the relationship between trade and environment and the past two decades of work on this interface at UNEP and the WTO.

Opening remarks by Mr Roberto Azevêdo, WTO Director-General

Opening remarks by Mr Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP

Moderator:

• Mr Adrian Macey, Former Climate Change ambassador and former Chief Trade Negotiator; Senior Associate, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

High-Level Panel on the Global Environment and Trade

Speakers include:

• Mr Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat
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• Mr John Scanlon, Secretary-General, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
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• Mr Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, CEO, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

• Mr Adrian Macey, Victoria University of Wellington

• Mr Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD

Moderator:

• H.E. Ms Päivi Kairamo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Finland to the WTO, former Chair of the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE)

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Expert Panel on the Evolution of Trade and Environment Jurisprudence

Speakers include: 

• Mr Georges Abi Saab, former Appellate Body Member

• Mr. Lorand Bartels, University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

• Mr Steve Charnovitz, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

• Mr Makane Mbengue, Associate Professor, Law Faculty, University of Geneva

• Mr Joel P. Trachtman, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Moderator:

• Mr Franz Perrez, Former panel member of the US-Tuna II case, current Ambassador for the Environment of Switzerland

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