At the release event for the WTO/UNEP report, Director-General of the WTO Pascal Lamy
said that an international agreement on climate change should come first—before the WTO would
begin work on determining the WTO compatibility of trade measures related to climate change.
He emphasized that the relationship between trade and climate change would be best defined by an
international accord on climate change that embraces all polluters. Lamy asserted that WTO members
want trade addressed as part of an overall post-Kyoto treaty, and they do not want a separate Geneva-
based WTO negotiation on permissible trade-related climate measures.