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Trade and Climate: a negotiating agenda for the WTO?

Hosted by Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and LSE IDEAS

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Speakers

Ignacio Garcia Bercero

Ignacio Garcia Bercero

Emily Lydgate

Emily Lydgate

Chair

Julius Sen

Julius Sen

After striking a deal on fisheries subsidies, could trade and climate be the next negotiating challenge for the WTO?

The talk will discuss issues for a potential trade and climate negotiating agenda such as subsidies, liberalisation of goods and services with a positive climate impact, standards for measuring carbon intensity or the role of border carbon measures. It will look into the potential of tackling those issues in a WTO context either multilaterally or through open plurilateral approaches.

Meet our speakers and chair

Ignacio Garcia Bercero is Director in charge of Multilateral Affairs, Strategy and economic Analysis at DG Trade in the European Commission.

Emily Lydgate is a Reader (Senior Associate Professor) in Environmental Law at the University of Sussex and Deputy Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, a partnership between Sussex and Chatham House. Her research focuses on the relationship between environmental regulation and economic integration through trade. She is a Specialist Advisor to the EFRA Committee (UK House of Commons) and has provided expert testimony for a number of Parliamentary Committees.

Julius Sen is an Associate Director and Senior Programme Advisor at LSE Enterprise.More about this event

This event will be followed afterwards by a drinks reception.

The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (@gri_lse) is a world-leading centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment.

LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is LSE's foreign policy think tank. Through sustained engagement with policymakers and opinion-formers, IDEAS provides a forum that informs policy debate and connects academic research with the practice of diplomacy and strategy.

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