Sustainability Impact Assessment
of
Proposed WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Institute for
Development Policy and Management
The University of Manchester
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SIA-WEB: Sustainable Impact Assessment Web Portal
This web site will be periodically updated as this work progresses. The contractors welcome comments and suggestions from interested parties on their work and can be contacted directly either via email or by post using the feedback facility on this web site.
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European Commission SIA studies
The aim of the European Commission's SIA work is to assess the impact that the results of future WTO negotiations could have on sustainability worldwide. In addition to the current Phase Three study being undertaken by IDPM, the Commission has awarded the following contracts for further studies. These are detailed below, along with links to the appropriate websites.
http://www.sia-acp.org/index.html
Sustainability Impact Assessment of the new Economic Partnership Agreements between the ACP & the GCC States and the EU (European Union). For SIA ACP-EU, the final reports of Phase 1 are now available. GCC-EU; the methodology that is implemented for the Sustainable Impact Assessment of the trade negotiations between the EU and the GCC countries, has been publicised on the website.
http://www.sei.se/policy/SIA-Food.html
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)'s final report for the 'SIA of WTO Negotiations on Major Food Crops' is now available on this site, and provides the completed SIA results for the scenarios selected by the Commission for this study. The website also contains information on sustainable development and environment and a bibliography of SEI publications on sustainable development.
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/trade/issues/global/sia/index_en.htm
The European Commission
DG Trade web site on SIA contains an introduction to the work that is being carried
out by IDPM, Price Waterhouse Coopers Consortium and SEI; including full reports to date and a record of the
public meetings.
