Organized by the Secretariat of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), this meeting will address the trade and sustainable development implications of the green economy, in particular, the concerns related to new forms of green protectionism and aid conditionality. It will also identify key conditions for a green economy to become a vehicle for sustainable development and areas where international action could promote an inclusive, broad-based and fair transition towards a green economy. Furthermore, the meeting aims to explore ways in which the green economy, through trade-led growth, could become a pro-development income-generating instrument that will directly contribute to meeting the sustainable development imperative, universally adopted at the 1992 Rio Summit.  

dates: 8-10 November 2011   venue: Palais des Nations, Room XXVI   location: Geneva, Switzerland   contact: UNCTAD Secretariat   phone: +41(0)229175731   fax: +41(0)229170247   e-mail: lucas.assuncao@unctad.org   www: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/meeting.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1&m=21807&info=not