BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4ca2b4b6e3f DTSTART:20141124T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20141124T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport\, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation\, third session (small island developing States) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport\, Trade Logistics an d Trade Facilitation will address some emerging and persistent issues that developing countries are facing and which need to be dealt with as a matt er of priority.\n\nIn accordance with the relevant paragraphs of the Doha Mandate\, the expert meeting will address trade logistics issues in develo ping countries\, including those with special needs\, namely the least dev eloped countries\, landlocked developing countries\, small island developi ng States (SIDS) and some countries with economies in transition. Drawing from UNCTAD'\;s three pillars of work\, discussions will consider all relevant aspects\, namely technical assistance and capacity-building\, res earch and analytical work\, and consensus-building.\n\nIssues to be addres sed:\n\n\nKey transport and trade logistics related challenges facing SIDS \;\nSectoral interlinkages between transport and trade\, as well as other key economic sectors of relevance to SIDS\, in particular\, tourism and fi sheries\;\nClimate-change impacts on transport infrastructure in SIDS and adaption needs\;\nFinancing as a cross-cutting enabling factor\;\nPriority action areas and effective response measures\;\nThe role of partnerships\ , relevant partners and collaboration mechanisms.\n\n\nThe third session o f the multi-year expert meeting will focus on some of the particular trans port and trade logistics challenges that SIDS face in connection with thei r remoteness and geographical location (cf. Doha Mandate\, paragraph 56(j) ). SIDS share the same environmental and economic vulnerabilities and sust ainable development challenges\, such as susceptibility to natural disaste rs\; vulnerability to external shocks\; remoteness from large markets\, lo w transport volumes and connectivity leading to high freight and logistics costs\; and high economic dependency on sea and air transport links.\n\nI mproved access to global markets and enhanced trade competitiveness is par ticularly important for these countries\, as is ensuring the resilience of critical transport infrastructure. With SIDS being completely dependent o n ports and airports\, climate change risks such as rising sea levels\, in creasing temperatures and more frequent and/or intense storms pose serious threats to vital transport infrastructure\, services and operations. Unde rstanding the underlying risk and vulnerabilities and developing adequate adaptation measures is of the essence. Against this background\, the strat egic importance of ports for the growth and development of SIDS will be pa rticularly highlighted.\n\nConvened in 2014\, which is the International Y ear of SIDS\, and following the third International Conference on Small Is land Developing States (Samoa Conference)\, the meeting offers a renewed o pportunity to focus international attention on the unique transport-relate d challenges facing SIDS and consider ways in which these can be better un derstood and adequately addressed.\n\nInput from experts\n\nExperts are en couraged to prepare and submit brief papers related to their studies\, fin dings and/or their country'\;s experience. These papers will be made a vailable to the meeting in the form and language in which they are receive d.\n\nPapers should be submitted by 10 November 2014 and addressed to Ms. Wendy Juan\, Palais des Nations\, CH-1211 Geneva 10\, Switzerland\; fax: + 41 22 917 0050\; e-mail: wendy.juan@unctad.org.\nmailto:wendy.juan@unctad. org\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/multi-year-e xpert-meeting-transport-trade-logistics-and-trade-facilitation-third-sessi on DTSTAMP:20260707T065444Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4ca2b4b6e8b DTSTART:20141125T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20141125T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport\, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation\, third session (small island developing States) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport\, Trade Logistics an d Trade Facilitation will address some emerging and persistent issues that developing countries are facing and which need to be dealt with as a matt er of priority.\n\nIn accordance with the relevant paragraphs of the Doha Mandate\, the expert meeting will address trade logistics issues in develo ping countries\, including those with special needs\, namely the least dev eloped countries\, landlocked developing countries\, small island developi ng States (SIDS) and some countries with economies in transition. Drawing from UNCTAD'\;s three pillars of work\, discussions will consider all relevant aspects\, namely technical assistance and capacity-building\, res earch and analytical work\, and consensus-building.\n\nIssues to be addres sed:\n\n\nKey transport and trade logistics related challenges facing SIDS \;\nSectoral interlinkages between transport and trade\, as well as other key economic sectors of relevance to SIDS\, in particular\, tourism and fi sheries\;\nClimate-change impacts on transport infrastructure in SIDS and adaption needs\;\nFinancing as a cross-cutting enabling factor\;\nPriority action areas and effective response measures\;\nThe role of partnerships\ , relevant partners and collaboration mechanisms.\n\n\nThe third session o f the multi-year expert meeting will focus on some of the particular trans port and trade logistics challenges that SIDS face in connection with thei r remoteness and geographical location (cf. Doha Mandate\, paragraph 56(j) ). SIDS share the same environmental and economic vulnerabilities and sust ainable development challenges\, such as susceptibility to natural disaste rs\; vulnerability to external shocks\; remoteness from large markets\, lo w transport volumes and connectivity leading to high freight and logistics costs\; and high economic dependency on sea and air transport links.\n\nI mproved access to global markets and enhanced trade competitiveness is par ticularly important for these countries\, as is ensuring the resilience of critical transport infrastructure. With SIDS being completely dependent o n ports and airports\, climate change risks such as rising sea levels\, in creasing temperatures and more frequent and/or intense storms pose serious threats to vital transport infrastructure\, services and operations. Unde rstanding the underlying risk and vulnerabilities and developing adequate adaptation measures is of the essence. Against this background\, the strat egic importance of ports for the growth and development of SIDS will be pa rticularly highlighted.\n\nConvened in 2014\, which is the International Y ear of SIDS\, and following the third International Conference on Small Is land Developing States (Samoa Conference)\, the meeting offers a renewed o pportunity to focus international attention on the unique transport-relate d challenges facing SIDS and consider ways in which these can be better un derstood and adequately addressed.\n\nInput from experts\n\nExperts are en couraged to prepare and submit brief papers related to their studies\, fin dings and/or their country'\;s experience. These papers will be made a vailable to the meeting in the form and language in which they are receive d.\n\nPapers should be submitted by 10 November 2014 and addressed to Ms. Wendy Juan\, Palais des Nations\, CH-1211 Geneva 10\, Switzerland\; fax: + 41 22 917 0050\; e-mail: wendy.juan@unctad.org.\nmailto:wendy.juan@unctad. org\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/multi-year-e xpert-meeting-transport-trade-logistics-and-trade-facilitation-third-sessi on DTSTAMP:20260707T065444Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4ca2b4b6e92 DTSTART:20141126T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20141126T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport\, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation\, third session (small island developing States) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport\, Trade Logistics an d Trade Facilitation will address some emerging and persistent issues that developing countries are facing and which need to be dealt with as a matt er of priority.\n\nIn accordance with the relevant paragraphs of the Doha Mandate\, the expert meeting will address trade logistics issues in develo ping countries\, including those with special needs\, namely the least dev eloped countries\, landlocked developing countries\, small island developi ng States (SIDS) and some countries with economies in transition. Drawing from UNCTAD'\;s three pillars of work\, discussions will consider all relevant aspects\, namely technical assistance and capacity-building\, res earch and analytical work\, and consensus-building.\n\nIssues to be addres sed:\n\n\nKey transport and trade logistics related challenges facing SIDS \;\nSectoral interlinkages between transport and trade\, as well as other key economic sectors of relevance to SIDS\, in particular\, tourism and fi sheries\;\nClimate-change impacts on transport infrastructure in SIDS and adaption needs\;\nFinancing as a cross-cutting enabling factor\;\nPriority action areas and effective response measures\;\nThe role of partnerships\ , relevant partners and collaboration mechanisms.\n\n\nThe third session o f the multi-year expert meeting will focus on some of the particular trans port and trade logistics challenges that SIDS face in connection with thei r remoteness and geographical location (cf. Doha Mandate\, paragraph 56(j) ). SIDS share the same environmental and economic vulnerabilities and sust ainable development challenges\, such as susceptibility to natural disaste rs\; vulnerability to external shocks\; remoteness from large markets\, lo w transport volumes and connectivity leading to high freight and logistics costs\; and high economic dependency on sea and air transport links.\n\nI mproved access to global markets and enhanced trade competitiveness is par ticularly important for these countries\, as is ensuring the resilience of critical transport infrastructure. With SIDS being completely dependent o n ports and airports\, climate change risks such as rising sea levels\, in creasing temperatures and more frequent and/or intense storms pose serious threats to vital transport infrastructure\, services and operations. Unde rstanding the underlying risk and vulnerabilities and developing adequate adaptation measures is of the essence. Against this background\, the strat egic importance of ports for the growth and development of SIDS will be pa rticularly highlighted.\n\nConvened in 2014\, which is the International Y ear of SIDS\, and following the third International Conference on Small Is land Developing States (Samoa Conference)\, the meeting offers a renewed o pportunity to focus international attention on the unique transport-relate d challenges facing SIDS and consider ways in which these can be better un derstood and adequately addressed.\n\nInput from experts\n\nExperts are en couraged to prepare and submit brief papers related to their studies\, fin dings and/or their country'\;s experience. These papers will be made a vailable to the meeting in the form and language in which they are receive d.\n\nPapers should be submitted by 10 November 2014 and addressed to Ms. Wendy Juan\, Palais des Nations\, CH-1211 Geneva 10\, Switzerland\; fax: + 41 22 917 0050\; e-mail: wendy.juan@unctad.org.\nmailto:wendy.juan@unctad. org\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/multi-year-e xpert-meeting-transport-trade-logistics-and-trade-facilitation-third-sessi on DTSTAMP:20260707T065444Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR