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International Trade, Investment and Sustainable Production

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Overview: slides complement handout

1. Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS)Special issue of IJSD

2. Sustainable Development Indicators (SDI) Since 1999

3. Relation of EU SDS to Impact Assessment (IA) in the European Commission

4. Role of multilateral bodies such as WTO

5. Sustainability Scenario Elements (SSEs) for use in the EU

political decisions being made in Brussels?6. How can research

“foresee” beyond

catch up with

SDS (for backcasting)


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Current landscape for Sustainable

Development Indicators

UNECEOECD

Eurostat

Commission

IA

SDS

Joint Working Group on Statistics for Sustainable

Development

Council

EEA

WTOcourt World

Bank?

Member States

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DG Trade has more experience with IA than other DGs.

• In 1999 Pascal Lamy promoted Sustainability IA (SIA) and its Civil Society Dialogue inter alia to defuse protest

• Other DG’s did not begin until 2002• Current trade SIA programme budget is

more than EUR 2,700,000 over four years

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Separate processesDuring DG Trade’s

conference (Handbook available)… ..another event was

being held by other DG’s across the street


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What are sustainability impacts of trade?

• Doha Round -- overall economic and social impacts positive, but– environmental impact negative (per Duncan Brack,

2005).• Trade’s direct environmental impacts (goods

transport) are associated with energy resources– “the most stupendous item is global warming” (Ostry,

p.8).• Trade’s indirect environmental impacts magnify

unsustainable consumption and production patterns.


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WTO court rulings

• Trade policy known for rulings on fish cases involving whether Production and Process Measures (PPMs) are “product-related”.

• Next major test case may be whether countries are allowed to prefer sustainablyproduced biofuels

• Member states may discriminate among products only “if it does not distort trade”and no one challenges them (NGOs may advocate discrimination, cf.Max Havelaar).


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Sustainability Scenario Elements (SSEs)

Production factor

informal economy, unpaid work, gender issues, demography, migration, urbanization, remittances

Labor

sharing of technology, public/ private balance of IPRs, counterfeiting, open access, training, brain drain

Ideas

capital allocation, FDI, energy investment, land ownership

Capital

material flows, per-capita carbon emissions and world GDP, global value chain data

Natural resources

Biofuels issue affects this SSE




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6. How can research

UNECEOECD

Eurostat

Commission

IA

SDS

Joint Working Group on Statistics for Sustainable

Development

Council

EEA

WTOcourt World

Bank?

Member States

Research ?

“foresee” beyond

catch up with

political decisions being made in Brussels?

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