Traduction de «division de l'environnement » (Français → Anglais) :

10. Stresses the need for strong cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Climate Change Convention and the WTO, and asks the Commission to develop an initiative to support this aim; asks for swift progress to be made in updating the WTO’s definition of environmental goods and services, particularly in the current Doha Round negotiations, in order to reach agreement on the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to ‘green goods and services’; calls on the Commission to build a consensus on granting Multilateral Environment Agreement (MEA) Secretariats observer status at all meetings of the WTO, which a ...[+++]re relevant to MEA issues; stresses that a lasting solution must contain a strong political message that respects an appropriate division of labour between the WTO and MEA regimes, based on core competencies; is convinced of the need to redefine the responsibilities of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment; recommends launching a study on possible amendments to the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) in order to allow for the compulsory licensing of environmentally necessary technologies, within the framework of clear and stringent rules for the protection of intellectual property, and the strict monitoring of their implementation worldwide;

9. Stresses the need for strong cooperation between the UN Environment Programme, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the WTO, and asks the Commission to develop an initiative to support this aim; asks for swift progress to be made in updating the WTO's definition of environmental goods and services, particularly in the current Doha Round negotiations, but recommends, as a starting point, a specific link to climate change, in order to reach agreement on the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to 'green' goods and services that prevent or slow the dissemination of low carbon technologies; calls on the Commission to b ...[+++]uild a consensus on granting Multilateral Environment Agreement (MEA) Secretariats observer status at all meetings of the WTO that are relevant to MEA issues; stresses that a lasting solution must contain a strong political message that respects an appropriate division of labour between the WTO and MEA regimes, based on core competencies; is convinced of the need to redefine the responsibilities of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment; recommends launching a study on possible amendments to the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in order to allow for the compulsory licensing of environmentally necessary technologies, within the framework of clear and stringent rules for the protection of intellectual property, and the strict monitoring of their implementation worldwide;

9. Stresses the need for strong cooperation between the UN Environment Programme, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the WTO, and asks the Commission to develop an initiative to support this aim; asks for swift progress to be made in updating the WTO's definition of environmental goods and services, particularly in the current Doha Round negotiations, but recommends, as a starting point, a specific link to climate change, in order to reach agreement on the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to 'green' goods and services that prevent or slow the dissemination of low carbon technologies; calls on the Commission to b ...[+++]uild a consensus on granting Multilateral Environment Agreement (MEA) Secretariats observer status at all meetings of the WTO that are relevant to MEA issues; stresses that a lasting solution must contain a strong political message that respects an appropriate division of labour between the WTO and MEA regimes, based on core competencies; is convinced of the need to redefine the responsibilities of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment; recommends launching a study on possible amendments to the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in order to allow for the compulsory licensing of environmentally necessary technologies, within the framework of clear and stringent rules for the protection of intellectual property, and the strict monitoring of their implementation worldwide;

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-b ...[+++]ased pollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;

They do not think you can divide up the environment region by region.

Ms. Levin: I am not in frequent consultation with Health Canada, but other components of Environment Canada are.