A new and growing raft of trade initiatives signals increasing interest in integrating climate considerations into trade policy.

However, while this indicates heightened climate ambition, there is a risk that other long-standing challenges facing developing countries are deprioritized.

Without an approach that can also address development goals, climate and trade initiatives will remain at best superficial and at worst could enable a new climate protectionism and growing inequalities between developed and developing countries.

Instead, a successful approach will need to marry climate, development and trade goals, building trust and cooperation in the process.

• What are the development considerations of nascent efforts on trade and climate?
• What are the risks of ignoring development priorities in building cooperation around trade and climate?
• What are the key principles for a more development-centred agenda?

This event will be live streamed

Join us online

Join us for this event where we will explore the foundations of a pro-development agenda for trade and climate. 

Programme

Moderator:

• Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD

Speakers:

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Founder and Executive Director, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS Forum)
• Dora Correia, Director, European Commission DG Trade
• Carlos Lopes, Professor, Mandela School of Public Governance