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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 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
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28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28)
30 November to 12 December 2023, Expo City, Dubai
UN Climate Change Conference
30 Nov - 12 Dec 2023
COP28 Trade House Pavilion Programme
1-12 December 2023, Expo City, Dubai
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Contact
Ilaria Crotti, ilaria.crotti@unctad.org