Regional Workshop on Capacity Building on Trade and Environment
15 - 17 February 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

News and Information

• Opening Statement by Mr. Josué Dioné,
  Director of Sustainable Development Division of ECA.

   

• Workshop on Trade and Environment Opens in ECA
  ByYinka Adeyemi, 15 February 2006
  A regional workshop on trade and environment for African countries opened today at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• African experts to examine the linkage between trade and environment
  ByYinka Adeyemi, with Andrew Allimadi, 13 February 2006
  About 60 experts from 30 African countries will on Wednesday in Addis Ababa begin a three-day workshop aimed at developing their capacity at making policy on trade and environment.

Background Information

• Draft Agenda
• Draft Work Programme
• Terms of Reference

Documents

• Trade and Environment: Selected Issues of Concern for Africa
• Emerging Issues and Concerns of African Countries in the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Doha Round By Patrick N. Osakwe, Trade and Regional Integration Division, UN Economic Commission for Africa. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26 January 2006.