WTO-UNEP High-Level Event: Environment and Trade for a Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery from COVID-19

WTO and UNEP’s Environment and Trade Hub will organize a high-level event on Environment and trade for a sustainable and inclusive recovery from Covid-19. The event marks the start of a series of activities of the WTO Trade and Environment Week 2020. The International Resource Panel will also release its think piece: Sustainable Trade in Resources: Trade, Global Material Flows and Circularity. This report aims to inform policymakers on trade flows of material resources – including their environmental impacts – and the potential of trade to contribute to the transition to a greener and more circular economy.

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.

Learn more about the events of the week and register here.