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03 July 2025

TESS Annual Conference on Trade, Climate, and Sustainable Development (TCSD) 2025 - Trade Cooperation Pathways for Climate Action, Resilience, and Justice

The first edition of the TESS Annual Conference on Trade, Climate, and Sustainable Development (TCSD), with themes of climate action, resilience, and justice, will be held on 23-24 October 2025 at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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Our first Annual TCSD Conference aims to bring together around 80 leading experts from around the world to discuss, identify, and forge pathways for effective, inclusive international action and cooperation on trade, climate, and sustainable development.

The inaugural edition of the conference will focus on three cross-cutting themes: climate ambition, resilience, and justice.

The conference will bring together a regionally diverse range of experts from research centres, think tanks and academia, as well as stakeholder organizations, intergovernmental organizations, and government.

The conference will combine a number of public, live-cast panels with a series of thematic roundtables, workshops, debates, and brainstorming sessions. More details on the agenda will follow.

TESS will be reaching out to knowledge partners for a range of sessions and to support expert participation from developing countries.

This first edition of the Annual TCSD Conference is envisaged as a "pilot" effort to get the idea off the ground; the approach and format of subsequent editions will be adapted drawing on lessons learned and participant feedback.

The conference will be invitation only. We invite you to register your interest in joining this event.