Information Exchange and Observer Status: The World Trade Organisation and Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Executive Summary
1. Introduction: Why Coordinate Trade and Environment Agreements?
2. Paragraph 31 (ii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration
3. Institutional Character of the Trade and International Environmental Regimes
3.1. The Trade Regime
3.2. International environmental regimes
3.3. The Dilemma
4. Current Status of Negotiations
5. Which MEAs?
7. Information Exchange
8. Observer Status
9. Conclusion
Annex 1: Legal Basis of Some Secretariats
Annex 2:
Konrad von Moltke, Abram Chayes, Antonia Chayes, Oran Young,
"International Secretariats"“
Paper for the Pocantico Workshop on International Secretariats, June 1995
1. Introduction: An Historical Note
2. Classifying Secretariats
2.1. Institutional Status.
2.2. Size
2.3. Functions
3. Issues for Consideration
3.1. Data Gathering and Reporting.
3.2. Implementation Review
3.3. Regime Development
3.4. Resource Flows
3.5. Liaison and Networking
4. The Role of Executive Head
5. Systemic Considerations
5.1. Adjudication
5.2. Privatization
5.3. Balancing functions