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HIGHLIGHTS FROM WEDNESDAY, 11 OCTOBER, including photos and Real Audio |
Highlights from Thursday, 12 October |
Closing Remarks |
Closing remarks from Symposium Chair Pierre Marc Johnson (left) Statement from Raúl Enrique Arriaga Beccerra (right), Coordinator of the Transitional Team for Mexican-President Elect Vicente Fox ( |
Janine Ferretti, Executive Director, Commission for Environmental Cooperation |
Session 4: NAFTA's Transportation and Manufacturing Impact on the Environment |
Sheila Holbrook-White, Texas Citizen Fund, and Chair Gustavo Alanis, Presidente, Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental A.C. |
NAFTA Transportation Corridors: Approaches to Assessing Environmental Impacts and Alternatives (Sierra Club and Sheila Holbrook-White, Texas Citizen Fund, with technical support from WWF-US) Sheila Holbrook-White, Texas Citizen Fund (scouttxca@aol.com)
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Mexico's Manufacturing Exports and the Environment under NAFTA Claudia Schatan, Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) (cschatan@un.org.mx) |
Discussants Bob
Currey, Center for Environmental Resource Management-University of
Texas at El Paso, and Deron Lovaas, Sierra Club,
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Bob Currey, Center for Environmental Resource Management-University of Texas at El Paso (bcurrey@utep.edu) |
Deron Lovaas, Challenge to Sprawl Campaign, Environmental Quality Program, Sierra Club (deron.lovaas@sierraclub.org) |
A reporter asks a question during the question and discussion session |
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Jake Caldwell, Program Coordinator for Trade and te Environment, National Wildlife Federation, Vera Kornylak, Staff Attorney, Arizona Center for Law and Public Interest, and Takis Plagiannakos, Ontario Power Generation, |
Chair Steve Charnovitz, Attorney, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering
(scharnovitz@wilmer.com)
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Dale Andrew (left), OECD, presented the paper on Methodologies for Evaluating the Environmental Effects of Services Trade Liberalization (dale.andrew@oecd.org) Takis Plagiannakos (right), Ontario Power Generation, presented the paper entitled Will Free Trade in Electricity Between Canada the US Improve Environmental Quality? (takis.plagiannakos@ontariopowergeneration.com) |
Relationship between Wastewater Treatment and NAFTA Vera Kornylak, Staff Attorney, Arizona Center for Law and Public Interest (vkornylak@aclpi.org) |
Discussant Jake Caldwell, Program Coordinator for Trade and the Environment, National Wildlife Federation (caldwell@nwf.org) |
Discussant Philip Raphals, Director, Helios Center for Strategic Energies (Raphals@centrehelios.org) |
Closing Session: Next Steps: Policy Response to Environment-Trade Links |
Konrad von Moltke, International Institute for Sustainable Development, and Session Chair Durwood Zaelke, President, Center for International Environmental Law |
Session
Chair Durwood Zaelke,
President, Center for International Environmental Law (dzaelke@ciel.org)
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Lessons for Public Participation Regina Barba, Chair, Joint Public Advisory Committee (elrasa@dfl.telmex.net.mx)
Examining
the Implications to Trade Policy from Environmental Reviews
Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Economics (jschott@iie.com) |
Examining the Implications for Environmental Policy from Environmental Reviews Konrad von Moltke, Senior Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development (konrad.vonmoltke@dartmouth.edu) |
In the ensuing
discussion, a Mexican trade representative comments on the panel
discussion
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Pierre Marc Johnson and Regina Barba |
Symposium homepage | The CECs Analytic Framework for Assessing the Environmental Effects of NAFTA |
North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation | Research papers and Abstracts |
Draft Agenda | Report of Informal Workshop of Experts and Government Officials on Environment and Trade, 13 December 1999 |
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