Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward
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20212021
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United Nations Environment Programme
Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS)
Global Governance Centre
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RT Generic T1 Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward A1 United Nations Environment Programme, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), Global Governance Centre YR 2021 , 2021 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36281 PB AB TY - GEN T1 - Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward AU - United Nations Environment Programme, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), Global Governance Centre Y1 - 2021, 2021 UR - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36281 PB - AB - @misc{20.500.11822_36281 author = {United Nations Environment Programme, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), Global Governance Centre}, title = {Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward}, year = {2021 , 2021}, abstract = {}, url = {https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36281} } @misc{20.500.11822_36281 author = {United Nations Environment Programme, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), Global Governance Centre}, title = {Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward}, year = {2021 , 2021}, abstract = {}, url = {https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36281} } TY - GEN T1 - Greening International Trade: Pathways Forward AU - United Nations Environment ProgrammeUnited Nations Environment Programme, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS)Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), Global Governance Centre UR - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36281 PB - AB -View/Open
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Discussions of environment-trade issues are notoriously complex, cluttered with legalistic and technical language, and frequently opaque. As such, environmental stakeholders require information and tools to effectively engage in the trade policy arena. Stakeholders keen to promote green trade face common questions about priorities and strategy, including:• What updates in the content, implementation, and interpretation of trade rules could support green trade? • Beyond improved trade rules, what other pathways and opportunities could be used to foster cooperation and action on green trade? • How can trade policy better incentivize – and require –business to prioritize green products, production, and supply chains? • How can the green trade agenda meet the needs of developing countries? • How can international cooperation on trade support sustainable production in developing countries and address their sustainable development priorities? • Where are the political opportunities and prospects for success greatest in 2021, and what kind of alliances would progress require?
To help facilitate progress, this paper serves as a non-technical entry point for actors keen to navigate the environment-trade policy conversation and drive forward green trade. It maps the current state of play and highlights a range of possible pathways forward.
Greening International Trade argues that advancing green trade requires a reframing of the environment and trade narrative and agenda, a forward-looking Environment and Trade 2.0 agenda that: • Safeguards and strengthens ambitious environmental policies both nationally and internationally • Harnesses trade and trade policy to incentivize and drive green economic transformation forward
• Reduces negative environmental impacts of international trade and trade policies • Supports environmentally sustainable, resilient, and fair international supply chains • Increases international cooperation on green trade in ways that support the sustainable development goals of developing countries and a just transition • Strengthens coherence of national trade policies with environmental goals and sustainable development priorities • Supports democratic, transparent, and accountable processes of trade policymaking.
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