March 21,2002
• Enhance awareness on trade and environment issues.
• Review global and national literature and methodologies, and existing policies, particularly economic reform and trade policies.
• Conduct a national launching workshop
• Select a sector according to the socio-economic, environmental and trade liberalization sensitivity criteria.
• Create a steering committee to guide the project
• Hold steering Committee meetings
• Assemble a multidisciplinary team to carry out the study of the project
• Undertake detailed field study that would concentrate on the specific sector
• Submit a project report
• Conduct and EIA of Alternatives to Methyl Bromide
• Perform a cost benefit analysis for every crop integrating every alternative
• Assess impact of trade liberalization on the crops where Methyl Bromide is used
• Design policies to succeed with Phasing out of
Methyl Bromide in Lebanon
• Prepare of a Plan of Implementation
• Convene a national workshop to launch the final country study
• Publish Country Project Report
• Translate the report into Arabic
• Publish Country Project Report in Arabic
Rola El Skeikh
1 year
Ariane Elmas Saade
40,000 US Dollars
Enhance awareness on trade and environment.
Analyze of trade liberalization impact on crops where Methyl Bromide is used.
Building Capacity on Trade and Environment issues
1.5 month
Promoting and Monitoring Synergy between Trade and Environment in Lebanon
UNEP/UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade Development and Environment
Effects of Trade Liberalization on Crops where Methyl Bromide is used.