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Annex 2: Trade and environment workshops, seminars, and policy and high-level dialogue sessions
Workshop on Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment, Paris, France, 15 June 2006
Workshop on Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment, Tokyo, Japan, 19–20 June 2007
JWPTE Seminar on a Future Trade and Environment Agenda, Paris, 4 December 2007
Regional Workshop on Regional Trade Agreements, Santiago, Chile, 6–7 October 2008
Workshop on Regional Trade Agreements: Monitoring implementation and Assessing Impacts, Paris, 1–2 June 2010
Border Carbon Adjustment and International Trade: A Policy Dialogue, Paris, 11 June 2013
JWPTE Seminar on Long-Term Perspectives on Trade and the Environment, Paris, 10 June 2014
Regional Workshop on Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment, Hà Nôi, Vietnam, 17–18 September 2014
Workshop on Greening Regional Trade Agreements: Opportunities and Insights from International Experience, Paris, 10 June 2016
Workshop on Regional Trade Agreements and the Environment: Establishing Dialogue with Regional Stakeholders,
Santiago, Chile, 23–24 January 2018
Workshop on International Trade and the Circular Economy, Paris, 26–27 February 2020
OECD Global Forum on Trade: Trade and Climate Change, Paris, 9–10 June 2009
23rd OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development|: Competitiveness, Leakage, and Border Adjustment: Climate Policy
Distractions? Singapore, 22–23 July 2009
OECD Expert Workshop on Optimising Global Value Chains for Environmental Goods and Services, Paris, 8 June 2016
OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2017 “Making globalisation work: Better lives for all”
35th OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development: Trade and Environment Interactions: Governance Issues,
Paris, 28–29 June 2017
OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2018 “Reshaping the foundations of multilateralism for more responsible, effective and inclusive outcomes”
37th OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development: Accelerating the Development and Diffusion of Low-Emissions Innovations,
Paris, 20–21 November 2018
The OECD has a long tradition of working on the interlinkages between trade and the environment. Over the 30 years since its creation, the OECD’s Joint Working Party on Trade and the Environment (JWPTE) has, in accordance with its mandate, analysed the interaction between trade and environmental policies, and contributed to the development of a mutually supportive agenda needed to underpin competitive, sustainable and resilient economies. The JWPTE has published over 120 reports on a wide range of trade and environment issues, and provided a forum for information exchange, fostering debate within the trade and environment community and beyond.
This Retrospective of OECD work on trade and environment highlights the transforming landscape of trade and environment issues during the past decade and the JWPTE’s role in advancing policy analysis of these issues. It highlights work carried out on trade in environmental goods and services, reform of government support, regional trade agreements and the environment, climate change, circular economy, environmental labelling, as well as the use of indicators and quantitative analysis. The report also serves as a reference guide to inform future JWTPE projects, in the context of major emerging trends shifting policy needs and priorities in the trade and environment nexus.
For more information:
Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division, Environment Directorate, shardul.agrawala@oecd.org
Susan Stone, Head of the Emerging Policy Issues Division, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, susan.stone@oecd.org
Rob Dellink, Senior Economist, Environment Directorate,
