UNCTAD: Ad Hoc Expert Meeting on Trade, Investment…

Programme:

Ad Hoc Expert Meeting on Trade, Investment, Climate and Sustainable Development: Introducing UNCTAD's Draft Guides for mainstreaming Trade and Investment policies into NDCs

Opening remarks: Ms. Luz Maria de la Mora, Director, Division of International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD

Introduction of UNCTAD NDC Guides:

- Draft trade guide for policymakers: Ms. Chantal Line Carpentier, Head, Trade, environment, climate change and sustainable development Branch, UNCTAD

- Draft investment guide for policymakers: Ms. Amelia Santos Paulino, Chief, Research Section, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

Presentations:

·        Mr. Ommar Badjie, Director, Directorate of Investment and Industrial Development Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, The Gambia (on the pilot of the Guides in The Gambia)

·        Mr. Malick Kane, Technical Cooperation Lead, Trade, environment, climate change and sustainable development Branch, UNCTAD (on the lessons from the pilot implementation in Madagascar and The Gambia)

·        Ms. Karen Suassuna, Senior Programme Officer, Green and Inclusive Value Chains, International Trade Centre (tbc)

·        Ms. Manal Shehabi, Associate Faculty Member, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford (on green diversification and just transition)

·        Mr. David Vivas, Chief a.i. Trade, environment, climate change and sustainable development Branch UNCTAD (on NDCs mapping and the blue economy)

Respondents from the floor-Pilot Programs:

·        Representative from Madagascar (tbc)

·        Representative from The Gambia (tbc)

Q&A

·        Statements and Q&A by interested countries and institutions