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LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:Launch of the Trade and Environment Review 2023
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DESCRIPTION:In 2022\, a political road map “our ocean\, our future\, our 
 responsibility” was adopted at 2nd United Nations Ocean Conference in Li
 sbon in July 2022. Additionaly\, the 4th UN Oceans Forum called for a glob
 al &quot\;Blue Deal&quot\; was made at the 4th UN Oceans Forum in Geneva i
 n April 2022.\n\nThe ocean economy\, and particularly the &quot\;blue food
 s&quot\; sector\, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and is still being
  affected by the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe Trade and Environment Review 2023\
 , “Building a sustainable ocean economy”\, examines and analyzes sever
 al emerging topics\, including the sustainable fisheries\, aquaculture and
  seaweed sectors\, as levers for a sustainable economic recovery\; fisheri
 es subsidies and non-tariff measures reform\; the decarbonization of shipp
 ing and maritime supply chains\; and the impact plastic pollution the food
  chain.\n\nThe report offers a bottum-up list of action and policy recomme
 ndations to forge a new relationship with the marine environment and build
  a more sustainable and resilient ocean economy beyond 2030.\n\nProgramme\
 n\nModerator\n\n\nH.E. Mrs. Usha Chandnee Dwarka-Canabady\, Ambassador Ext
 raordinary and Plenipotentiary\, Permanent Representative\, Permanent Miss
 ion of the Republic of Mauritius to the United Nations Office and other in
 ternational organizations in Geneva \n\n\nKeynote\n\n\nH.E. Mr. Francisco
  André\, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation\, Portuga
 l\nH.E. Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC\, Secretary-General of the Commonwealt
 h (by video)\n\n\nReport presentation\n\n\nMs. Chantal Line Carpentier\, H
 ead\, Trade\, Environment\, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Bra
 nch (TED)\, DITC\, UNCTAD\nMr. David Vivas Eugui\, Chief of Section\, TED\
 , DITC\, UNCTAD\nMr. Audun Lem\, Deputy Director of the Fisheries and Aqua
 culture Division\, FAO (by video)\n\n\nComments on the way forward\n\n\nH.
 E. Mr. Jérôme Bonnafont\, Ambassador\, Permanent Representative\, Perman
 ent Mission of France to the United Nations Office in Geneva and other int
 ernational organizations in Geneva\, and Co-convener to the 2025 United Na
 tions Ocean Conference\nH.E. Mrs. Shara Duncan Villalobos\, Ambassador\, D
 eputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d’affaires a.i.\, Permanent M
 ission of the Republic of Costa Rica to the United Nations Office and othe
 r international organizations in Geneva\, and Co-convener to the 2025 Unit
 ed Nations Ocean Conference\nMr. Awni Behnam\, Honorary President\, Intern
 ational Ocean Institute\n\n\n \n/ter2023\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nh
 ttps://unctad.org/node/40607
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