The Faculty of Law (Trade and Environment Research Group) is presently in the process of finalizing a multi-partner project financed by the Geneva International Academic Network RUIG/GIAN. The project included Cooperation with Geneva's Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID), UNCTAD, UNEP-ETB, and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, Washington DC (INECE), it was coordinated by the Faculty of Law's Professor Anne Petitpierre:

Technology Transfer, Trade, and the Environment: Promoting Synergy for Sustainable Development among the World Trade Organization and Multilateral Environmental Agreements

This program has concluded its activities with a Conference organized by the Faculty of Law and IHEID on January 24, 2008. The morning session featured the Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda Para. 31(iii). In the afternoon a Roundtable took place with the participation of staff members of the Convention Secretariats,  UNEP Chemicals, UNEP-DGEF, and the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment.

An earlier Informal Roundtable Discussion on these Environmental Goods Negotiations organized by the same project partners on March 14, 2007, was attended mostly by trade negotiators from the Permanent Mission.

Links for these events are provided above, some project documents are presently being finalized.