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Lessons From North American Environmental Cooperation

Fri. May 30th, 2003

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LESSONS FROM NORTH AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION:
A MODEL FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, OR
TRADE-ENVIRONMENT HINTERLAND?

FRIDAY, MAY 30TH, 2003

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC

8:00 Breakfast and registration

8:45 OPEN OF MEETING/ Context and objectives

9:00 SESSION ONE:
NEGOTIATING THE SIDE AGREEMENT REVISITED
Moderator: John Audley, Carnegie Endowment
§ HOWARD MANN, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Sustainable Development
§ GUSTAVO ALANIS-ORTEGA, President, CEDMA, and Chair, Joint Public Advisory Committee
§ JOHN KNOX, Associate Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
§ RICHARD BALLHORN, Director General, Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada

11:00 SESSION TWO:
EFFECTIVENESS AND INSTITIONAL RESPONSES
Moderator: Janine Ferretti, Inter-American Development Bank
§ ROBERT WATSON, Chief Scientist and Director, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, World Bank
§ CAROL ANNE PETSONK, International Counsel, Environmental Defense
§ THOMAS BEIERLE, Fellow, Risk, Resource, and Environmental Management, Resources for the Future

12:45 LUNCH AT CARNEGIE:
Luncheon Speaker: DANIEL ESTY, Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University

13:45 SESSION THREE:
HAS THE NORTH AMERICAN COMMISSION BEEN EFFECTIVE?
Moderator: Frederick Mayer, Duke University
§ MICHAEL FERRANTINO, International Trade Commission
§ GREG BLOCK, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Lewis and Clarke Law School
§ ISABEL STUDER, Professor, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
§ DAVID MARKELL, Steven M. Goldstein Professor, Florida State University College of Law
§ VICTOR SHANTORA, Acting Executive Director, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

15:45 SESSION FOUR
MODELS FOR THE FUTURE?
§ GARY HUFBAUER, Regional Jones Senior Fellow, International Institute of Economics
§ KAREN ANTEBI, Economic Counselor, Trade and NAFTA Office, Embassy of Mexico
§ PETER PEDERSEN, Ministerial Sessions, World Trade Organization
§ ROBIN ROSENBURG, Deputy Director, North-South Center

17:00 Close of Meeting

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