Background
Member States and International Organisations are invited to participate in person at the UN Trade and Development briefing presenting the objectives and main topics of the upcoming “Trade Days”, taking place at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Sixteenth Meeting of the Parties (CBD COP16) in Cali, Colombia and at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Programme
9.30–9.40 a.m.: Welcome remarks. Ms. Isabelle Ventiny, UNCTAD
9.40–9.45: The importance of COP 16. Mr. Miguel Ruiz, Colombia
9.45–9.50: UNCTAD’s presence at COP 16. Ms. Lorena Jaramillo, UNCTAD
9.50–9.55: The importance of COP 29. Ms. Nurgul Hasanli, Azerbaijan
9.55–10.00: UNCTAD’s presence at COP 29. Ms. Chantal Line Carpentier, UNCTAD
10.00–10.10: Q/A
10.10: ISAR Colleagues
Chantal Line Carpentier joined UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s Division on International Trade and Commodities (DITC) in 2014, after serving as Chief, UNCTAD New York Office of the Secretary-General. She brings to the Branch over 25 years of work experience in international trade, and environmental and agro-economics.
Prior to working with UNCTAD, she supported the Commission on Sustainable Development and served as Major Groups (of non-State actors) coordinator for the UN Rio+20 Conference and the SDGs negotiations at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). She also supported the sustainable consumption and production and sustainable agriculture negotiations.
As Head of the North American Free Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperations, she lead work on the nexus of environment, economy, and trade. She also served as Agro-environmental Policy Analyst for Winrock International, and post-Doctoral fellow/Brazil office manager for the International Food Policy Research Institute.
She has an extensive list of publications on sustainable agriculture, trade and environment, sustainable consumption and production, financing for sustainable development, stakeholder engagement, global value chains, micro, small and medium enterprises, and economic empowerment of women.
She obtained a PhD. in Agro-Environmental Economics from Virginia Technology and MSc. and BSc. from McGill University.
Lorena Jaramillo is an economic affairs officer at UNCTAD.
She has been working in the area of BioTrade since 2001, internationally with UNCTAD and also in her native country, Ecuador. Lorena is currently responsible for the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative, which is being implemented jointly with partners in more than 90 countries. Additionally, she has worked in the development and implementation of sustainable development projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America in relation to biodiversity, sustainable trade, business development, sustainable sourcing, climate change, among others.
During her career of more than 20 years, Lorena has written several publications, for instance related to sustainable development, sustainable trade and biodiversity, the development of value chains and sustainable supply, reconstruction and peace.
She is an economist specialized in sustainable development from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and has an MBA from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
