Background Papers
Sustainability and the WTO Trading System — James Bacchus
Talloires — Trade and Climate Workshop
Trade and Renewable Energy Subsidies — Elena Cima
Internalizing Climate Externalities from Internationally Traded Goods: Challenges and Way Forward to Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms — Goran Dominioni and Alessandro Monti
Remaking the World Trade Organization: Environmental Goods — Maureen Hinman
Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Challenges for the International Trading System — Ronald Steenblik
Towards a Multilateral Climate Club? — Geraldo Vidigal
Villars — Digital Innovation, Technology, and Trade Workshop
Business Perspectives on How Trade and Digitalization Can Align to Accelerate Sustainable Outcomes — Jon Powell
Revolutionizing Global Trade and Development Through Digital Technologies — Stephen Ezell and Stefan Koester
E-commerce and Sustainability: An Overlooked Nexus — Victor do Prado and Yanis M. Bourgeois
Digitization, Regulatory Barriers, and Sustainable Development — Mira Burri and Kholofelo Kugler
Out of the Factory and into the Back Office: Globotics for Sustainable Development — Richard Balwin and Dmitry Grozoubinski
Digitech, Sustainable Development and Trade Rules to Bridge the Digital Divide — Simon Lacey
Blockchain for Sustainable Supply Chains — Emmanuelle Ganne
Taormina, Sicily — Circular Economy Workshop
Remaking Trade: Waste, Circular Economy, and Trade — Kimberley Botwright, Dominic Coppens, Nicolas J.S. Lockhart
Overcoming the Circularity Divide: Towards a Circular Trade and Apparel Industry in Africa — Colette van der Ven
Product Design and Circular Value Chains: Understanding Essential Component of Circular Commercial Metabolism — Henrique Pacini, Lorenzo Formenti, Glen Wilson
Circular Economy and Competitiveness: Businesses’ On-the Ground Reality — Shunta Yamaguchi
Trade Facilitation for Reverse Supply Chains — Maureen Hinman, Adina Renee Adler
Barbados — Shifting the Paradigm for a Just Transition and Sustainable Development Workshop
Climate Technology Diffusion and Transfer in the International Trade System — Silvia Weko, Andreas Goldthau and Rainer Quitzow
Paradigm Shift: A New Era for Trade, Sustainability, and Development — Thomas Hale and Kennedy Mbeva
Aligning climate, trade and development through cross-cutting frameworks — Max Gruenig, Eunjung Lee, and Ignacio Arroniz Velasco, E3G
Capital Availability or Capital Absorption? Unlocking Financing for Sovereign and Private Sector Trade-related Finance for Sustainable Climate Action in the Global South — Jake Cusack, Marilia dos Reis Martins, and Kate Wharton
Carbon Markets: Leveraging the Interface between Climate Policy and Trade Policy to secure Climate Finance for Small Island Developing States — Clara Brandi and Jodie Keane
Green Industrial Policy and International Trade — Ilaria Espa
An Upstream Carbon Tax at the Wellhead in Guyana — Thomas B. Singh
Global Trade Can — and Should — Drive Equitable and Sustainable Development, Benefiting All — Presentation by Carlijn Nouwen, Climate Action Platform Africa (CAP-A)
Environmental Authoritarianism: Lessons from China’s Climate Change Mitigation — Henry Gao
Copenhagen — Trade and Shipping: Toward a Sustainable Transport Future Workshop
The WTO and the Decarbonization of International Shipping: How Can the WTOSupport the Equitable Energy Transition? — Goran Dominioni
Shipping through the Arctic: Sustainability and Trade Challenges — Stella A. Ebbersmeyer
Regional Actors and Trade: The inclusion of shipping in the EU ETS — Aixa Pérez, Beatriz Martínez Romera, and Bernardo Busel Niedmann
Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions Transport — Tristan Smith
Border Carbon Adjustment in Shipping — Viktor Weber, Daniel C. Esty, and Beatriz Martinez Romera
Talloires — Ensuring Trade Contributes to Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Insights from the WTO Trade Dialogues on Food and Outreach to the Agri-Food Business Sector — Doaa Abdel-Motaal
Food Security and the Agreement on Agriculture: Old Wine in New Bottles? — Sophia Murphy and Calvin Manduna
Global Agri-Business and Sustainable Food Systems — Stefano Rettore
Reforming and Repurposing Agricultural Subsidies to Facilitate Trade and Sustainability — Carmel Cahill
WTO Domestic Support Negotiations and Agricultural Sustainability: Issues and Concerns — Sachin Kumar Sharma
Food Security for a Sustainable Future — James Nedumpara
The Potential of Trade Policy to Enhance Sustainable Farm Productivity — Valeria Piñeiro and Joseph Glauber
The Role of Trade in Mitigating Harmful Environmental Impacts of Global food and Land Use Systems — Elizabeth Petykowski, Talia Smith, Morgan Gillespy, and Alessia Mortara
Standards and Regulations to Foster Sustainable Agriculture: Proposals to Rebalance the Global Trading System — Rodrigo C. A. Lima
Sustainable Agricultural Production Standards and Traded Goods Sustainability Certifications, Including the Effects on Small Holders — Jason Clay
Geneva — Oceans and Blue Economy Workshop
Fisheries Subsidies, the WTO, and Sustainability — Mustaqeem De Gama
The Tides are Turning: Does the Ocean Hold the Key for a New Blue Deal? — Nikola Simpson
The Relevance of Trade and Trade Policies for Plastic Pollution — Carolyn Deere Birkbeck and Mahesh Sugathan
Ocean Health and Trade — Lahsen Ababouch and David Vivas Eugui
Promoting Sustainable Ocean Transportation — Tristan Smith
The Tides are Turning – Does the Ocean Hold the Key for a New Blue Deal? — Nikola Simpson
Mexico City — Trade and the Social Dimension of Sustainability
Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation: Towards Assessing and Equitably Allocating the Sustainable Development Costs of Trade Agreements — Sonia E. Rolland
Trade and Labour Standards: Sustaining Social Regionalism through Multilateralism — Adelle Blackett
Trade Law on the Factory Floor: Increased Firm-Centrism in Social Sustainability Trade Tools — Kathleen Claussen
International Trade Policy: A Blessing or a Curse for Women? — Amrita Bahri and Katrin Kuhlmann
Globalization, Workers, and Inequality in Developing Economies — Nita Rudra
The WTO and Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19 Vaccines — Chad P. Bown
Indigenous Peoples and . . . International Trade — Sergio Puig and Andrew Shepherd
Delhi — Steel Decarbonization in India
Deep Decarbonization Ambition and Equity: A case study of the steel sector in India in the context of the EU’s CBAM and Other International Developments — Kasturi Das and Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
