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UNEP Event
UNEP at Trade and Environment Week 2020
16 - 20 November 2020
- Overview
Trade and Environment Week 2020, taking place at the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 16-20 November is a global forum to:
- explore issues at the forefront of the trade and environment agenda;
- showcase successful experiences on how to make global trade more sustainable, resilient and inclusive; and
- exchange concrete ideas on the role of trade and the WTO in building back greener and better from the COVID-19 crisis.
It comprises a series of events and workshops that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is engaged with, including a high-level session co-hosted by UNEP and the WTO Secretariat, and a Stakeholder Event co-hosted with the Graduate Institute, Chatham House and the Geneva Trade Platform. Events throughout the week are held in conjunction with the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) where UNEP will be presenting its new report: Sustainable Trade in Resources: Trade Global Material Flows and Circularity.
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
16 Nov 2020 | WTO-UNEP High-Level Event: Environment and Trade for a Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery from COVID-19 | Online, from 3 PM CET. Register here.
Click here to watch a live stream of the session
This high-level session, which is organized by WTO and UNEP as part of their collaboration to promote dialogue between the trade and environment communities, brings together leaders from across the globe to identify concrete actions for sustainable, resilient and inclusive trade.
Some findings of the new UNEP/International Resource Panel report Sustainable Trade in Resources: Trade, Global Material Flows and Circularity, will be shared during this event. Read the fact sheet here.
Panel:
- Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
- Alan Wm. Wolff, Deputy Director-General, WTO
- Soraya Hakuziyaremye, Minister of Trade and Industry, Rwanda
- Sveinung Rotevatn, Minister of Climate and Environment, Norway and UNEA 5 President
- Dame Ellen MacArthur, Founder and Chair of Trustees, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Jamshed N. Godrej, Chairman of the Board of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited, India
Moderator: Chad Blackman, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the WTO and Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment
17 Nov 2020 | Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions Launch Event | Online, from 9:30 AM CET. Register here
This event serves as the launch of the communication on trade and environmental sustainability at the WTO. The objective of the communication is to create a structured discussion, beginning in early 2021. The structured discussions will allow interested WTO Members, as well as non-WTO experts (e.g. academics, NGOs, IOs and the private sector), to come together to explore the nexus between trade and environmental sustainability.
Panel:
- Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Environment Programme
- Alan Wm. Wolff, Deputy Director-General of WTO
- Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre
- John Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Chad Blackman, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the WTO and Chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment
- Peter Wooders, Senior Director, Energy, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Moderator: Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck, Senior Researcher, Graduate Institute's Global Governance Centre
17 Nov 2020 | A coalition by China, Fiji, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries are launching new discussions at the WTO on trade and plastic pollution | Online, from 11:15 AM CET. Register here
UNEP is invited to frame the launch discussion through the environmental lens.
18 Nov 2020 | Stakeholder roundtable on Trade and Sustainability | Online, from 9:15 AM CET. Register here
Organized by The Geneva Trade Platform, UNEP Environment and Trade Hub, the Global Governance Centre, and Chatham House Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy, this event brings together stakeholders other than government for a forward-looking WTO agenda on environmental sustainability and trade.
