The Doha mandate on trade and environment

At the Doha Ministerial Conference, WTO Members reaffirmed their commitment to health and environmental protection and agreed to embark on a new round of trade negotiations, including negotiations on certain aspects of the linkage between trade and environment. In addition to launching new negotiations, the Doha Ministerial Declaration requested the CTE, in pursuing work on all items in its terms of reference, to focus on three of those items, and, together with the Commitee on Trade and Development, to act as a forum in which the environmental and developmental aspects of the negotiations can be debated.