BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a7b44e3109d5 DTSTART:20210617T120000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20210617T131500Z LOCATION:\, SUMMARY:Webinar on report launching: How can international trade policy hel p tackle plastic pollution? CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute\, the F orum on Trade\, Environment and the SDGs (TESS)\, United Nations Conferenc e on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, the Geneva Environment Network (GEN) \, the Geneva Trade Platform (GTP) and UNEP Environment and Trade Hub invi te you to an online launch of a new report\, “How can trade policy help tackle plastic pollution? Trends\, actors and policy options for internati onal cooperation” by Carolyn Deere Birkbeck and Mahesh Sugathan.\n\nThe report aims to facilitate an informed discussion of policy options among a diversity of relevant stakeholders\, including environmental NGOs\, the business sectors\, government\, international organisations and the resear ch community working on the challenges of plastic pollution.\n\nThe report : \n\n\nProvides strategic analysis of linkages between trade and sustain ability challenges in the plastics sector\, including how and to what exte nt trade policies could form part of the solution to plastic pollution\;  \nMaps the range of trade policy options and interventions that could help reduce plastic pollution\, while also noting how and where trade policies can erect barriers to or threaten national plastic pollution reduction ef forts\; \nIdentifies a number of potential pathways for aligning trade an d trade policy with plastic pollution goals\, including through internatio nal environmental processes and agreements\, international trade diplomacy – at the WTO and UNCTAD as well as at the regional and bilateral level – and cooperation through international economic organisations\; and\nPr oposes policy priorities and identifies research needs\n\n\nThe research f or this report was supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts. This event is p art of a wider project on Transforming the Global Plastics Economy\, led b y the Global Governance Centre in partnership with UNCTAD\, and financed b y the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS). This event is co-spon sored by the Global Governance Centre\, the Forum on Trade\, Environment & amp\; the SDGs (TESS)\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, the Geneva Environment Network (GEN)\, the Geneva Trade Platfo rm (GTP) and UNEP Environment and Trade hub.\n\n\n \n<\;p>\;The Globa l Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute\,&\;nbsp\;the Forum on Tr ade\, Environment and the SDGs (TESS)\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, the Geneva Environment Network (GEN)\, the Gen eva Trade Platform (GTP) and UNEP Environment and Trade Hub invite you to an online launch of a new report\, “How can trade policy help tackle pla stic pollution? Trends\, actors and policy options for international coope ration” by Carolyn Deere Birkbeck and Mahesh Sugathan.<\;/p>\;\n\n&l t\;p>\;The report aims to&\;nbsp\;facilitate an informed discussion o f policy options among a diversity of relevant stakeholders\, including en vironmental NGOs\, the business sectors\, government\, international organ isations and the research community working on the challenges of plastic p ollution.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The report:&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\ n<\;ul>\;\n<\;li>\;Provides strategic analysis of linkages between trade and sustainability challenges in the plastics sector\, including ho w and to what extent trade policies could form part of the solution to pla stic pollution\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Maps the range of t rade policy options and interventions that could help reduce plastic pollu tion\, while also noting how and where trade policies can erect barriers t o or threaten national plastic pollution reduction efforts\;&\;nbsp\;&l t\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Identifies a number of potential pathways for ali gning trade and trade policy with plastic pollution goals\, including thro ugh international environmental processes and agreements\, international t rade diplomacy – at the WTO and UNCTAD as well as at the regional and bi lateral level – and cooperation through international economic organisat ions\; and<\;/li>\;\n<\;li>\;Proposes policy priorities and identi fies research needs<\;/li>\;\n<\;/ul>\;\n\n<\;p>\;The research for this report was supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts. This event is part of a wider project on Transforming the Global Plastics Economy\, led by the Global Governance Centre in partnership with UNCTAD\, and financed by the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS). This event is co-sp onsored by the Global Governance Centre\, the Forum on Trade\, Environment &\;amp\; the SDGs (TESS)\, United Nations Conference on Trade and Deve lopment (UNCTAD)\, the Geneva Environment Network (GEN)\, the Geneva Trade Platform (GTP) and UNEP Environment and Trade hub.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;h4 class="\;text-align-center\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unc tad.org/meeting/webinar-report-launching-how-can-international-trade-polic y-help-tackle-plastic-pollution DTSTAMP:20260811T155059Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR