Message-ID: <F1D5502105@iopa.scarolina.edu> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 12:52:10 EDT From: mailto:JOHNSON@IOPA.SCAROLINA.EDU> Subject: call for nominations (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:37:32 +1000 (EST) From: "M.Beavis" <mailto:s_mark6@eduserv.its.unimelb.edu.au> Subject: call for nominations (fwd) To: IRTHEORY_LIST <mailto:irtheory_list@unimelb.edu.au>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:16:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Aaron Cosbey <mailto:acosbey@canuck.com> To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY <mailto:ipe@csf.colorado.edu> Subject: call for nominations
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TRADE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CONSULTATION ON MEMBERSHIP OF AN EXPERT PANEL A Call for Nominations
Discussion and detailed analysis of the linkages between trade, environment and development have been going on in various intergovernmental bodies, in some cases for more than five years. However, all this discussion and analysis has not yet led to the formulation and implementation of balanced and integrated policies. An independent panel of international experts on trade, environment and development could accelerate the formulation and implementation of policies which integrate these objectives.
The funds necessary to establish and operate such a panel for one year have been raised by WWF from 5 environment and 3 development cooperation ministries. The panel will have 18 seats distributed equally (ie six each) among trade, environment and development experts working in their personal capacities. Within each core area the seats will be shared out between current and former government or inter-governmental officials, non-governmental organisations and academics/researchers (lawyers, economists and scientists).
The selection of panellists is crucial to the success of the panel. Panellists will have to be balanced on North-South and regional bases. Multidisciplinary policy experience and achieving a balance between policy objectives and regions will be key selection criteria. This international consultation process will be used to identify the panellists - this e-mail\fax is the most important of this consultation process which has been proceeding on a more informal basis over the last couple of months.
Could you please submit your nominations for panellists to:
Charles Arden-Clarke, WWF International, 1196 Gland, Switzerland, tel.00 41 22 3649513; fax 00 41 22 3645829; or e-mail mailto:cac@lan.wwf.ch, and mailto:ddd@lan.wwf.ch
by 14th June, 1996.
It would be helpful if you could include your reasons for nominating the individuals you select (their experience\expertise, your contacts with them, etc.).
This request is being widely distributed by fax and the e-mail networks over the next two days. If you have access to a network could we please ask you to post this consultation document on that network.
A brief description of the proposed work of the panel follows. If you require further information on the panel please contact Charlie Arden-Clarke or Delwyn Dupuis at the above addresses.
Work of Expert Panel on Trade and Sustainable Development
The panel will have a single overarching objective, to be pursued with reference to three guiding tasks. The primary objective of the panel will be: *the development of integrated policy instruments, or policy packages, which harness trade to the objective of sustainable development.
In pursuing its major objective, the panel will seek to: *make optimal use of the relevant work being done, by NGOs, academic and other independent research and policy institutions, as well as government and inter-governmental bodies; *help to identify remaining gaps in the analysis and stimulate appropriate bodies to fill them; and *conduct public outreach and stimulation of public debate.
Implementation of any of the panel's recommendations will depend on them being sufficiently balanced and innovative to attract governments and intergovernmental bodies.
The panel will elaborate its mandate prior to and at its first meeting. The focus should be on issues on which there is most need and scope for developing innovative policy instruments or packages to solve trade, environment and development problems. Much of the work of the panel will be carried out between its meetings, supported, facilitated and coordinated by the panel secretariat.
The panel will meet twice in its first year of operation - once in the autumn of 1996 prior to the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Singapore (December), and once more prior to the fifth meeting of the CSD in April 1997. Reports of the panel's work will be widely disseminated within the official and NGO communities prior to each meeting. Another report will be submitted after CSD 1997, and funding will be sought for extension of the panel.
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