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Role of Airports and Airlines in Trade
Liberalization and Economic Growth
Bold changes are
needed to ensure the long-financial sustainability of the air
transport industry. Substantial pressure for adjustment is now
imposed on airlines and its implication on airports and their
managers and owners. Shocks have arisen from the drop in
demand for travel since September 11 and the impact of SARS.
On the supply side, new models of providing services, through low
cost carriers, are being refined. The adjustments that
traditional carriers may have to undertake could be substantial but
as they move towards new arrangements, the airlines confront a
series of policy issues in trade and regulation.
The project addresses issues such as airport security, airport
modernization with a focus on the role of airports in the logistics
chain, the impact of liberalization of both air transport services
and airport services themselves, and trends in airport finance.
The project seeks to make a contribution to the understanding of the
role of public-private partnerships in this field.
Contact Person: Professor
Christopher Findlay, Vice Chair, AUSPECC
Air Transport in the Pacific
Islands
The purpose is to start a “brain storming” within PECC on air
transport issues
in the Pacific, with a special regard to the
Island States needs, for the airlines and their
users ( in the
fields of freight and tourism ) in an area where growth and
development are
dramatically depending on air transportation. It
will be also to see whether it could be
worthwhile to go further
in that kind of exploration and to undertake a PECC work on that
topic.
The main idea behind the move is only to conduct a large and in
depth examination of what is
wrong and what could be done to
lessen the costs of air services as well as to improve the air
networking on a consensus basis with fair and equitable
opportunities for all involved economies.
Contact
Person: H.E. Jacques LE
BLANC, Secretary General, FPTPEC
Environmental issues and
Community Integration in Mining
The minerals sector remains an important part of the regional
economy. Both consuming and
producing economies have a high
stake in a stable market and an investment climate conducive
to
the long-term character of mining. As well as economic factors,
local community-based
interests and environmental factors affect
this investment climate and the benefits derived
from
mining.
PECC has a long history of work on
minerals and energy. In earlier periods, PECC organised a
regular Minerals and Energy Forum. The Forum was for many
years coordinated by Australia and led by executives from the large
minerals and energy companies in Australia. As part of the
evolution of the PECC work program, the Forum was later divided into
separate energy and minerals components and their management was, as
part of the normal cycling of responsibilities, transferred to other
PECC member economies.
Building on PECC’s strong background in minerals work and the
PECC minerals network, the French
Pacific Territories Committee
for Pacific Economic Cooperation proposes to begin a new project
on minerals under the auspices of the Community Building Forum
with the following themes
- Community integration in mining
- Mine site rehabilitation
The first meeting of the PECC
Minerals Network under this leadership was held in New Caledonia in
November 2002.
The goals of the 2nd PECC Minerals
Network meeting in November 2003 are to pursue the work done in the
2002 meeting. The aim is to attract community leaders who
could present their own experience with the mining company that
operated in the country. The focus will be on Pacific Islands
economy presentations (e.g. PNG and Fiji). However
presentations will also be sought from other economies with relevant
experience or current issues, such as Canada and the Latin American
members of PECC.
Contact Person: Ms
Doriane SANCHEZ LE-BRIS, External Economic Relations
Manager,
Agence de Développment Economique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie,
FPTPEC or
Professor
Christopher FINDLAY, Vice Chair of AUSPECC, PECC Coordinating
Group Chair
- First
Meeting of the Minerals Network, 6-7 November 2002, Noumea,
New-Caledonia
(Papers available on request through the PECC
Secretariat)
- Second Meeting of the Minerals
Network, 17-18 November 2003, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
(Summary
of Proceedings)
- Third
PECC Minerals Network Meeting, 9-11 September 2005, Taiyuanm
Shanxi, China
Eco-Tourism: Strategic Alliances
Between Travel and Conservation
Along with its notable economic growth, the Asia-Pacific region
generates the broadest realm of
development in the world. All
countries in this region work closely through a dynamic trade
exchange, characterized by large investment flows, joint
participation in technological
breakthroughs, and above all,
through day-by-day communication to nourish common goals.
The
Pacific Basin’s diversity is an advantageous factor that offers an
infinite array of
possibilities. Thus, this scenario is
fundamental to the prosperity of all of our nations.
Within this context, environmental themes pose an important
challenge to all of the member
economies of the region. Natural
resources should be respected and developed with the greatest
care and sensitivity. In so doing, all of the inhabitants of the
Pacific Basin will be able to
benefit from economic development.
With this in mind, Ecuador has organized an Ecotourism Forum to
certify its deep commitment
to all international agreements
related to sustainable growth and environmental protection.
Ecotourism has to do with an attitude that every country should
have towards the preservation
of those territories that harbor a
high biodiversity. It has to do with reserves in which
humans
co-exist harmoniously with nature.
Contact Person: Mr. Ozwaldo Muñoz,
Technical Chair for ECPECC Ecotourism Forum.
Regional Infrastructure
for Sustainable Economies (RISE)
With the theme of "Extending the Market Place Beyond Urban
Boundaries", RISE is a cooperative
public-private regional
integrated infrastructure initiative designed to
accelerate
diversified growth of intermediate-level rural cities.
With the support of APEC, the Pacific Economic Cooperation
Council (PECC) launched a new
initiative in 1999 to demonstrate
how integrated infrastructure development will stimulate new
industrial and agricultural growth in areas beyond the urban
centers, enabling them to
participate more effectively in the
global economy.
The mission of RISE is to accelerate the growth of large, medium
and small-scale enterprises
and productivity in non-metropolitan
APEC regions (hubs and their rural/resource environs)
through
integrated infrastructure development. A priority emphasis is on—but
not limited
to—food system development.
In addition to APEC's Infrastructure Experts Workshop (chaired by
Indonesia) and its EcoTech
Committee, and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, the RISE initiative also enjoys the support
of the
Asian Development Bank, ABAC, PBEC, U.S. Council for International
Business, the
US-ASEAN Council and the National Center for APEC
Studies.
For fuller details of the RISE project, please visit their
website at http://www.riselink.net/
Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs)
PECC SME Network
has been working closely with the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises
Working Group and has produced a "Profile
of SMEs and SME Issues in APEC 1990-2000" published in
2002. Currently
the network is working on 2 main projects:
The Network is led by Chris
Hall For details please
visit the SME Website: 
http://www.smallbizapec.org
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