[voew-listserver] Announcement: Summer Academy "Trade and Climate Change", U Bern, Switzerland, July 2011
- From: Lorenz Martin <lorenz.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: VÖW Listserver <voew-listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:25:55 +0200
Summer Academy Week on Trade and Climate Change
25 - 29 July 2011, World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern
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The WTI Summer Academy provides you with accessible yet specialised
knowledge of some of the most cutting-edge issues in investment and
trade regulation. This year, a specialised one-week course on "Trade and
Climate Change" is organised as a part of the WTI Summer Academy.
This course examines the relationship of climate change mitigation and
adaptation and the multilateral trading system. Implications for tariff
negotiations, discussions on border tax adjustment, non-tariff barriers,
in particular subsidies, services and intellectual property are taken
up. The course also explores the scope and substance of a possible
future WTO Agreement on Energy.
Lecturers:
- Arthur E. Appleton /Founder/, Appleton Luff - International Lawyers;
/Co-President/, International Business Lawyers Association (Geneva);
/Law Advisor/, Uruguay Round Trade Negotiations
- Thomas Cottier /Managing Director/, World Trade Institute, University
of Bern; /Director/, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research
(NCCR) on Trade Regulation
- Patrick Low /Chief Economist/, World Trade Organization; /Adjunct
Professor of International Economics/, Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Luca Rubini /Lecturer/, Birmingham Law School; /Researcher/, NCCR Work
Package 5 on Trade and Climate Change
The WTI Summer Academy is designed for private, public and civil society
professionals and higher-education students. Costs: CHF 1'300 (CHF 520
for students) plus accommodation. No grants are available.
Application is now open. The limited number of places will be assigned
on a first-come-first-served basis.
More information on the course and on the application procedure is
available on <http://www.wti.org/courses/summer-academy/>.
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