Fisheries subsidies: from New York UN Ocean Conference to Buenos Aires MC11
Channel: ICTSD
Date: 2017-10-02

Although years of negotiations on fisheries subsidies have not yet delivered a fruitful outcome, international public attention on ocean issues is higher than ever and the subsidy question has become a central, inevitable and pressing item of the international agenda. Will the WTO get behind the June 2017 UN Ocean Conference's headlines and deliver on fisheries subsidies at MC-11?

Panelists:
- Juan Carlos González, Ambassador, Mission of Colombia to the WTO 
- David Walker, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the WTO
- Mustaqeem De Gama, Counsellor, South African Mission in Geneva
- Claire Nouvian, President, BLOOM
- Christophe Bellmann, Senior Resident Research Associate, ICTSD
- Remi Parmentier, Director, The Varda Group