Food security, equity and World Trade Organisation rules in the climate change debate
| When: | Thursday, 14 July 2016 - Thursday, 14 July 2016 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus West Chalsty Audio Visual Room, Law School Building |
| Start time: | 13:00 |
| Enquiries: | Mandela-Institute-Events@wits.ac.za or call (011) 717 8468. |
| RSVP: | Mandela-Institute-Events@wits.ac.za or call (011) 717 8468. |
Dr Christian Häberli will discuss how countries can implement their commitments to limit the increase in the global average temperature.
He will discuss this as per the Paris Agreement on Climate Change for agriculture. Food security is perhaps the gravest equity issue in the whole climate change discussion.
The paper finds that, contrary to the official discourse of ‘mutual supportiveness’ between trade and environment agreements, World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and commitments can actually prevent climate action, for agriculture generally as well as with specific solutions for the development dimension.
Dr Christian Häberli is a Senior Research Fellow at the WTI/NCCR (Bern University) and a lecturer and consultant in Europe, Asia, Africa, and in the Americas.
He served as trade negotiator for Switzerland in the GATT and the WTO during the Uruguay and the Doha Rounds (1986 to 2007) and chaired the WTO Committee on Agriculture (Regular Session, 2005-07). He has been a WTO Panellist since 1996.
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