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LOCATION:Port Moresby\, Papua New Guinea
SUMMARY:MSG Green Trade Project: 1st national workshop Papua New Guinea
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:The first National Workshop on the United Nations Conference on
  Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Green Trade Project for Melanesian Spearhe
 ad Group (MSG) countries found place on 31 May 2022 from 8:30 am – 4:30 
 pm at the Lamana Hotel in Port Moresby\, Papua New Guinea (PNG).\n\nThe wo
 rkshop was held in a hybrid format in which national participants attended
  physically while regional and international participants attended online.
  The workshop involved key government officials as well as the private sec
 tor\, including producers and exporters of Vanilla. The workshop was divid
 ed in two parts. The first one focused on raising awareness on Green Trade
  and how the project supports it. It included presentations about the MSG 
 Green Trade Project\, the methodology of non-tariff measures (NTMs) data c
 ollection\, a presentation of the EU-STREIT Programme and of vanilla value
  chain in PNG. In the second part\, members of the national industry\, res
 earch institutions and national authorities have discussed and presented a
 bout the different elements of the vanilla industry and value chain in PNG
 .\n\nThis first national workshop allowed to reunite a large scope of stak
 eholders to discuss about green trade in PNG and the challenges facing the
  vanilla value chain\, particularly as an export product.\n\nIn the follow
 -up of this workshop\, the national consultant\, supported by the PNG nati
 onal authorities\, the MSG secretariat and UNCTAD will continue its work o
 n assessing the development of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) fo
 r vanilla.\n\n\nTo know more about NTM and VSS:\n\n\nNon-tariff measures (
 NTM) data collection  \nVoluntary sustainable standards (VSS) assessment
    \n\n\n \nhttps://vssapproach.unctad.org/\n\nView meeting on unctad.o
 rg\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/msg-green-trade-project-1st-national-worksh
 op-papua-new-guinea
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