Conferences

Ancient County: Opportunities for international cooperation?

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Conference, 25th November 2011 in Gorizia-Nova Gorica-Görtz

The new alliance by the municipalities of Gorizia, Cormòns and Gradisca is offering three days of discussions and reflections University of Udine and the Laboratory
research centre of economics and management LAREM, headquartered in Gorizia.

 

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Searching for progress on key issues

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Prof. Raymond Saner at the TRI-CC conference: Searching for Progress in Key Areas. He highlighted the “regime failure” in the context of global trade and climate change challenges and called for urgent actions. He went on to proposes a new set of green WTO agreements that would encompass TRIMS, TRIPS and a trilateral plurilateral on energy, environment and trade & development.

Details of this frame breaking policy proposal can be heard at here

IISD’s Trade, Investment and Climate Change Project (TRI–CC) convened a one-day conference in Geneva on October 13, 2011 at World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters. In three sessions, a roster of internationally respected speakers addressed.

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United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development/DESA/UNCSD

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The role and importance of TNCs and FDI in low-carbon development
Multinational (MNC) or transnational corporations (TNC) are enterprises that manage production or deliver  services in more than one country. The International Labour Organization further specifies that an MNC is a corporation which has its management headquarters in one country (the “home country”) and operates in several other (“host”) countries. UNCTAD distinguishes financial from non-financial TNCs, because of the different  economic functions of assets of financial firms and the non-availability of relevant data on sales and employment.

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2nd Round Table on Tourism

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Policy Coherence for Sustainable Tourism Development. Selected Country Assessments, Information Seminar,26th April, WTO, Geneva

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WORKSHOP ON BUSINESS DIPLOMACY

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Diplomacy Dialogue, Geneva designed workshops on Business Diplomacy with EIASM in Brussels for 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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