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POST-DOHA PROSPECTS FOR WSSD
Mark Halle
WSSD cannot reopen, modify nor reverse decisions taken at Doha. It is not the forum at which the elements of the future trading system can be designed. But Doha has created considerable new space for a constructive debate between the trade and sustainable development communities. WSSD should focus on how that space might best be occupied, and how the sustainable development community might use the new openings to influence the Doha agenda in favour of sustainable development, and how capacity to do that might best be built. Even if the agenda is successfully completed, it is far from sufficient to ensure full coherence between trade and environment policies at the national and global levels.
A positive trade agenda for WSSD
The Doha agenda offers considerable scope for positive interation between the sustainable development community and the trade policy community, just as it represents a number of dangers. The following are a number of suggestions on way in which WSSD might reinforce the former, while avoiding the latter.
