WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONTN/TE/W/14
9 October 2002
(02-5427)
Committee on Trade and Environment
Special SessionOriginal:  English
ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS
Submission by the
State of Qatar
Paragraph 31(iii)
I. BACKGROUND
1. The Doha Ministerial Declaration, Paragraph 31(iii), calls for negotiation on the reduction, or
removal, of tariffs and other barriers to environmental goods and services.  The negotiating structure
adopted by the Trade Negotiations Committee comprises three negotiation entities:  (i)  the
Negotiating Group on Market Access;  (ii)  Council for Trade in Services in Special Session and (iii)
Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) in Special Session.
2. There is a general understanding that, while negotiation on environmental goods is to be
conducted in the Market Access Negotiation Group, the Council for Trade in Services will deal with
environmental services.  Moreover, there is an agreement that the CTE Special Session would be
entrusted with clarification of the concept of environmental goods in addition to playing a monitoring
role.
3. A fundamental task for the CTE in Special Session will be the compilation of definitions and
classifications for environmental goods and services.  This is a prerequisite in order to facilitate the
scope of negotiation and define the specific roles of the CTE in Special Session and theMarket Access Negotiating Group.  The present subm ission by the State of Qatar is designed to
address a selected set of environmental goods and services in the energy sector, with the view of
promoting their trade liberalization.
II. PROPOSAL ON ENERGY SECTOR
4. The State of Qatar values the work of the World Trade Organization on trade liberalization,
particularly its efforts to liberalize trade in environmental goods and services.  The importance of this
activity is becoming more evident as the relationship between global trade and environmental policy
becomes increasingly interrelated.  This is very clear in the case of global energy trade upon which
the economy and welfare of the State of Qatar are dependent.
5. The environmental goods, services and technologies in the energy sector proposed by the
State of Qatar for trade liberalization were selected based upon their merits using sustainable
development criteria.  The criteria include:
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• Climate Change Mitigation Potentials
• Wider Issues of Sustainable Development
• Air Pollution Emissions and Toxic Waste Generation
• Human Health and General Environmental Protection
• Energy Efficiency Potentials
III. CATEGORY OF SUGGESTED ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS AND
TECHNOLOGIES
6. The economic and environmental benefits of energy efficiency due to utilization of natural
gas fired combined cycle systems and advanced gas turbines are well established.  They include
attributes related to the criteria briefly described in section 5.
In this submission the Technologies only are listed.  The specifics regarding the services, units'
description and product specification are deferred for further compilation at a later stage.  The list
includes:
• Combined-cycle natural-gas-fired generation systems
• Advanced-gas turbine systems (industrial and utility turbines).
IV. RECOMMENDATION
7. The State of Qatar recommends that energy efficient technologies such as combined-cycle
natural-gas-fired generation systems and advanc ed gas-turbine systems known for their energy
efficiency and sustainable development potential must be subtitled and elaborated in the definition of
environmental goods.
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