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FTAA Work

The "ALCA Sostenible" Project
A Project with the Center for Environmental Planning, CIPMA (Chile) and the International Center of Economic Policy, CINPE (Costa Rica)

August 2000- December 2002
Funded by the Ford Foundation

Goal

"ALCA Sostenible" is a project coordinated by the Environmental Research and Planning Center (CIPMA, Chile) which involves the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy/GETS and the International Center for Economic Policy (CINPE, Costa Rica) in the spirit of integrating different environmental perspectives from several countries of the Americas into the free trade discussion. The project includes two broad initiatives to help facilitate the environmental discussions in the context of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

First, a key goal is to advance the analytical argument for including environmental concerns in the hemispheric economic integration process. The goal is to develop an "FTAA Environmental Agenda" that is acceptable to Environmental Ministers (and important environmental constituencies) as well as to Trade Ministers. Second, CIPMA, YCELP/GETS, and CINPE are working together to develop shared understanding of obstacles and opportunities provided by the FTAA. A primary component of this joint effort involves the participation in meetings hosted by partner research centers in Latin America. The goal is to exchange information, strategic insights, and policy analysis in a manner that allows each of the participating groups to contribute meaningfully to discourse over the FTAA.

Products

Three clusters of research have been developed:

  • The FTAA Trade and Environment debate and its interaction with the multilateral Debate (YCELP/GETS);
  • The Environmental Dimension of the FTAA Negotiating Areas (CINPE);
  • Methodologies for Assessing the Environmental Impacts from the FTAA (CINPA).
These topics have been developed in more detail in a book in Spanish that will be published at the end of the 2002.

Upcoming

The Book in Spanish will have the following Chapters:

Título
Autor

1. El ALCA a través del lente de Doha
Mónica Araya (GETS)

2. Las negociaciones de inversiones y la responsabilidad social corporativa: explorando el nexo en las Américas
Mónica Araya (GETS)

3. ALCA y participación de la sociedad civil
CIECA 

4. Evaluación de la sustentabilidad de un acuerdo de libre comercio entre Chile y Estados Unidos en el sector agroindustrial chileno
Annie Dufey (CIPMA)

5. Biodiversidad, transgénicos, propiedad intelectual y las negociaciones del ALCA
Paolo Bifani

6. Evaluación de la Sustentabilidad de Acuerdos Comerciales y su Aplicación en el Contexto Latinoamericano y del ALCA
Hernán Blanco (CIPMA)

7. El futuro de las negociaciones sobre inversión y ambiente
Eduardo Gitli y Carlos Murillo (CINPE)

8. Las negociaciones sobre derecho de propiedad intelectual, el comercio y el ambiente: notas para una agenda positiva
Jorge Cabrera y José Pablo Sánchez

9. Agricultura, comercio y ambiente
Agenda para las negociaciones en el ALCA
Carlos Pomareda y Carlos Murillo (CINPE)

10. Servicios, medio ambiente y el ALCA
Randall Arce (CINPE) 

11. Acceso al mercado, compras públicas, subsidios, derechos antidumping y compensatorios, solución de controversias y competencia: Notas para una agenda positiva
J. Jaramillo

About Our Partners

Centro para la Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente, CIPMA
(more information available at http://www.cipma.cl)

CIPMA has been dedicated to fostering throughout Chile its approach to environmental issues which integrates this dimension with economic development, as well as promoting solutions that would lead to the abovementioned integration by means of collaboration between the diverse sectors of society. CIPMA has been accredited as an Independent Academic Center by the National Commission for Science and Technology Research (Conicyt).

Centro Internacional de Política Económica para el Desarrollo Sostenible (CINPE)
Integración, Comercio y Ambiente (INCA)
(more information available at http://www.inca.co.or)

CINPE is affiliated with the Universidad Nacional, in Heredia, Costa Rica. It was founded in 1995. Its main research areas are: International Trade and Finance; Environmental Magement and Economic Valuation of Natural and Human Resources. The program also offers a Master-degree in each of those areas.

 

 

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