Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future

Always a pleasure to collaborate with my friends at the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) - here's my piece on WTO Reform as a catalyst for change, which draws on some of our work from the Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future. It's part of a compilation that will be launched at the WTO Public Forum in Geneva next week. Joel Trachtman Carolyn Deere Birkbeck Fabrice Lehmann Christophe Bellmann Yasmin Ismail #WTOreform #sustainabletrade

When a hurricane approaches and hits, EVERYTHING stops for a while, and in some cases, more than just a while ... Reports coming in are that the smallest Caribbean islands of Union Island (in the Grenadines), Carriacou and Petite Martinique (sister islands to Grenada), Tobago (sister island to Trinidad) and bigger island Barbados have gotten the brunt of Hurricane Beryl that bore down on the Eastern Caribbean this Monday morning… and that the same Beryl is headed for Jamaica and Cayman Islands. Lord have mercy! This is no time for self-promotion, but I hereby recommit to work I am part of at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for Int'l Trade Law, Policy and Services (https://lnkd.in/ekyaS5GC), the Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future Project, climate litigation and through other important initiatives, to bring trade rules and policies into alignment with the climate change agenda! My heart is breaking for my region. These painful reminders show that all of us—not just those in SIDS and climate-vulnerable economies—must work much harder to address the geographic and international governance systems (finance, trade, shipping) that cause and worsen these climate calamities. These disasters, and the threat of them, wreak havoc on our people and economies every year. The need for reform of the current system could not be clearer. Sending prayers up and best wishes out to all my colleagues, friends, MITP students and alum across the Eastern Caribbean. We will find ways to help but for the bigger lift, we will need more intention, clear-sighted focus, and all hands on deck! To provide assistance to Grenada, see comments below. Thanks for the post Akima Paul Lambert #helpuswithclimatechange #tradeforclimate #heartbroken

I wear several hats on the topic of the intersection between trade and gender policy. I was privileged to have been invited to the inaugural Gender Equality Forum, hosted by UN Women, Caribbean Development Bank, Canada and others as a pre-event at the SIDS4 Conference on 25-26 May. I have penned some of my preliminary thoughts on the Forum in this SRC Trading Thoughts piece: https://lnkd.in/eHetx639 Thoughts? Caribbean Women in Trade Hyde Constantine-Felix Andrea Ewart Nicole Pitter Patterson Dav - Ernan Kowlessar Cherise Trotman Vashti G. Guyadeen Natasha Gomes - George, MSc.,BSc. Shridath Ramphal Centre for Int'l Trade Law, Policy and Services Amrita Bahri Dorotea Lopez WTO Chair Programme - ITAM / Cátedra de la OMC - ITAM Vanessa Toré Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future Tonni Brodber Isabel Auld Patricia R. Francis CD Farmala Jacobs Dario Carrington PMP Kirk Humphrey Vera Thorstensen Marina Amaral Egydio de Carvalho Gabriela Leoni David Vivas Eugui Chantal Line Carpentier Therese Turner-Jones Renata Vargas Amaral Anoush der Boghossian Katrin Kuhlmann Sylvanie Burton Meghan T. Kiz Johnson Abebech Assefa Matthew Wilson Nadia B. Theodore Travis Sinckler

St Lucian native and #VillarsExpert Jan Yves Remy, Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for Int'l Trade Law, Policy and Services (SRC), The University of the West Indies, knows first-hand how susceptible her island is to the ravages of climate change - and she’s using trade policy to try and alleviate it. In collaboration with Yale University Institute for the Environment and Tufts University, Remy is working on the Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future, encouraging governments, policymakers, and trade organizations to think creatively about how #TradePolicy should interact with other systems of governance and put the planet at the center of the #GlobalTradingSystem. We’re delighted to be working closely with Jan Yves Remy, Dan Esty, Joel Trachtman and the team on this important initiative, and for the active involvement of #VillarsFellows bringing the voice of young people to the conversations and recommendations published in the Villars Framework 2.0 (https://lnkd.in/dwuwSzzR). As WTO hosts its 13th Ministerial Conference, be inspired by Jan Yves Remy and her work on aligning #GlobalTrade with sustainable practices to halt #BiodiversityLoss and #ClimateChange #MC13 #BiodiversityLoss #ClimateChange #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #GlobalTrade #Agriculture #SystemsLeadership

This week I had the opportunity to participate on Remaking Trade For a Sustainable Future event at Georgetown University Law Center. The event was organized by Center on Inclusive Trade and Development co-led by Jennifer Hillman and Katrin Kuhlmann. It was an honor speaking on behalf of ECLAC at the Panel on "Trade and Inclusion: Leveraging Trade as Tool for Social Development" alongside Gregory Shaffer and Nita Rudra from Georgetown University, and Paula Tavares from the The World Bank. We discussed how the multilateral trade system can and should incorporate the social dimensions (labor, gender, indigenous rights, etc) as a core objective in order to support countries achieve the SDGs. The event was sold out and featured representatives from IDB, WB, ODI, USAID, Walmart, Silverado Policy Accelerator, etc. and also included presentations by USTR Ambassador Tai and two US Senators. Congrats to Trevor Sutton, Lillie Steinhauser, Valeria Frigeri and Mario R. Osorio Hernandez for a fantastic event! The Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future is a project co-led by Dan Esty (Yale University), Joel Trachtman (The Fletcher School at Tufts University), and Jan Yves Remy (The University of the West Indies) and I've been fortunate to be part of it's steering committee. More info about the project can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eJVCvxQU

💥 The Geneva Policy Outlook 2024 is now online 💥 This new edition places its finger on the pulse of Geneva’s global policy space and asks how #globalgovernance needs to adapt to new world orders, what it means for #Geneva and what can be done now, and by whom. www.genevapolicyoutlook.ch With articles from Natasha Carmi, Jamil Chade, Andrew Clapham, Paola DEDA, Dan Esty, chris fabian, Filippo Grandi, David Harland, Suerie Moon, Roxana Radu, Jan Yves Remy, Marie-Laure Schaufelberger, CFA, Claire Somerville, Ching Wei Sooi, Trevor Sutton, Fred Tanner, Mara Tignino, Joel Trachtman, Laura Turley, PhD, Mark Zeitoun Geneva Graduate Institute, State of Geneva, Ville de Genève, Fondation pour Genève