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Our dialogues, publications, and other activities on evolving and emerging policy developments in the area of sustainability, trade, and finance.

Expert View

Trade in the Balance: Aligning the Trading System With Climate and Development Goals

The trade regime must provide incentives for low-carbon, socially inclusive, and climate-resilient growth trajectories.

Kevin Gallagher & Tim Hirschel-Burns 11 March 2024
Expert View

Greening Supply Chains: Sleepwalking Into a New Era of Trade Policy?

Trade negotiators are advised to become acquainted with the dynamics of the environmental and financial communities.

Marion Jansen 07 March 2024
Expert View

The Governance of Trade as if a Healthy Planet Really Mattered

For the redesign of a trade regime placed at the service of a healthy, balanced, and equitable planetary community.

Mark Halle 29 February 2024
Expert View

Voluntary Carbon Markets – Unfinished Business From COP28

The unfinished business of establishing a regulatory framework for carbon markets could provide a new frontier.

David Luke & Cecilia Wandiga 22 February 2024
Expert View

How to Avoid Potential Friction in Future Trade in Climate Technologies

There are avenues for cooperation within the WTO and beyond on future low-carbon technology trade.

Brad McDonald & Scott Vaughan 22 February 2024
Publication - Policy Paper

Greening Aid for Trade: Pathways for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainable Trade

On how aid for trade strategies can ensure a just and fair transition for developing countries.

Carolyn Deere Birkbeck 31 October 2022
Expert View

How Can We Harness Aid for Trade for a Just Transition to Sustainable Trade?

How developing countries can harness aid for trade to support a just transition to sustainable trade.

Carolyn Deere Birkbeck 02 August 2022
Dialogue

Greening Aid for Trade: Future Priorities and Pathways for a Just Transition to Sustainable Trade

Session on greening Aid for Trade during the 2022 Aid for Trade Global Review.

28 July 2022
Dialogue

Informal Discussion on Aid for Trade, Environment, and Sustainable Development

Informal discussion on AfT, environment, & sustainable development ahead of the 2022 AfT Global Review in Geneva.

30 June 2022
Dialogue

Climate Change Loss and Damage: An Emergency Economic, Finance, and Trade Agenda for a Planet on Fire

Launch event of the recently published "Climate Vulnerable Economies Loss Report."

16 June 2022
Expert View

Plastic Pollution: Can Aid for Trade Help Least Developed Countries Tackle This Crisis?

How aid for trade can support least developed country efforts to tackle the plastic pollution crisis.

Mahesh Sugathan 07 June 2022
Publication - Policy Brief

Aid for Trade Priorities on Plastic Pollution

A discussion of how aid for trade can help address the plastic pollution crisis.

Mahesh Sugathan 24 May 2022
Dialogue

Aid for Trade, Environment, and Sustainable Development

TESS hosted Geneva-based experts to discuss aid for trade, environment, and sustainable development.

03 February 2022
Dialogue

Greening Aid for Trade and the SDGs

Webinar on greening Aid for Trade and the SDGs.

24 June 2021