The UNEP Environment & Trade Hub inspires and enables countries in developing and implementing sustainable trade policies and trade agreements that foster environmental sustainability and human well-being. The Hub works with public and private partners to offer analyses, research, tools, methodologies, and advisory services. The Hub also promotes national, regional, and international cooperation between environment and trade communities. This page captures the relevant resources for Food & Agriculture.
GCFR TRADE Hub:
Nature-positive Trade for Sustainable Development: Opportunities to promote synergies between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and work on sustainable trade at the WTO
Sustainable Supply Chains and Deforestation: The Landscape of Trade Policy Initiatives and Emerging Issues, January 2023
Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward, May 2021
This report is a non-technical entry point for actors keen to navigate the environment-trade policy conversation and promote sustainable trade. The report argues that advancing green trade requires a reframing of the environment and trade narrative. First, greening trade must start with strong environmental laws, regulations, institutions, and enforcement nationally, complemented by international environmental agreements that set out shared goals, obligations, and minimum standards. Second, governments can green trade through a strategic approach to measures and tariffs applied at their borders. Governments can also update trade rules and policies relevant to environmental action ‘behind the border.’ Third, the report highlights additional pathways to stronger intergovernmental cooperation on green trade that requires attention. Fourth, the report highlights the opportunities presented by stakeholder initiatives to green trade and supply chains.
Trade, Development and Nature: An Introductory Learning Companion, April 2021
Biodiversity and International Trade Policy Primer, February 2021
Other
Training manual on climate-smart agriculture for South Africa, 2020
