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Towards a Multilateral Climate Club?
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Challenges for the International Trading System
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Remaking the World Trade Organization: Environmental Goods
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Aligning the Trade and Climate Regimes: Challenges and Way Forward for Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms
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Trade and Renewable Energy Subsidies
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Trade and Climate (Talloires Workshop)

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Blockchain for Sustainable Supply Chains
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Digitech, Sustainable Development and Trade Rules to Bridge the Digital Divide
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Out of the Factory and into the Back Office: Globotics for Sustainable Development
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Digitization, Regulatory Barriers, and Sustainable Development
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E-commerce and Sustainability: An Overlooked Nexus
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Revolutionizing Global Trade and Development Through Digital Technologies
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Business Perspectives on How Trade and Digitalization Can Align to Accelerate Sustainable Outcomes
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Digital Innovation, Technology, and Trade (Villars Workshop)

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Trade Facilitation for Reverse Supply Chains
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Circular Economy and Competitiveness: Businesses’ On-the Ground Reality
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Product Design and Circular Value Chains: Understanding Essential Component of Circular Commercial Metabolism
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Overcoming the Circularity Divide: Towards a Circular Trade and Apparel Industry in Africa
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Remaking Trade: Waste, Circular Economy, and Trade
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Circular Economy Workshop (Taormina, Sicily)

Shifting the Paradigm for a Just Transition and Sustainable Development (Barbados Workshop)

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Environmental Authoritarianism: Lessons from China’s Climate Change Mitigation
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Global Trade Can — and Should — Drive Equitable and Sustainable Development, Benefiting All
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An Upstream Carbon Tax at the Wellhead in Guyana
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Green Industrial Policy and International Trade
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Capital Availability or Capital Absorption? Unlocking Financing for Sovereign and Private Sector Trade-related Finance for Sustainable Climate Action in the Global South
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Aligning climate, trade and development through cross-cutting frameworks
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Paradigm Shift: A New Era for Trade, Sustainability, and Development
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Climate Technology Diffusion and Transfer in the International Trade System
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Border Carbon Adjustment in Shipping
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Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions Transport
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Regional Actors and Trade: The inclusion of shipping in the EU ETS
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Shipping through the Arctic: Sustainability and Trade Challenges
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The WTO and the Decarbonization of International Shipping: How Can the WTO Support the Equitable Energy Transition?
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Trade and Shipping: Toward a Sustainable Transport Future (Copenhagen Workshop) 

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Sustainable Agricultural Production Standards and Traded Goods Sustainability Certifications, Including the Effects on Small Holders
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Standards and Regulations to Foster Sustainable Agriculture: Proposals to Rebalance the Global Trading System
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The Role of Trade in Mitigating Harmful Environmental Impacts of Global food and Land Use Systems
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The Potential of Trade Policy to Enhance Sustainable Farm Productivity
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Food Security for a Sustainable Future
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WTO Domestic Support Negotiations and Agricultural Sustainability: Issues and Concerns
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Reforming and Repurposing Agricultural Subsidies to Facilitate Trade and Sustainability
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Global Agri-Business and Sustainable Food Systems
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Food Security and the Agreement on Agriculture: Old Wine in New Bottles?
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Insights from the WTO Trade Dialogues on Food and Outreach to the Agri-Food Business Sector
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Ensuring Trade Contributes to Sustainable Food and Agriculture (Talloires) 

Oceans and Blue Economy (Geneva Workshop) 

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The Tides are Turning – Does the Ocean Hold the Key for a New Blue Deal?
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Promoting Sustainable Ocean Transportation
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Ocean Health and Trade
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The Relevance of Trade and Trade Policies for Plastic Pollution
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The Tides are Turning: Does the Ocean Hold the Key for a New Blue Deal?
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Fisheries Subsidies, the WTO, and Sustainability
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Trade and the Social Dimension of Sustainability (Mexico City) 

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Indigenous Peoples and . . . International Trade
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The WTO and Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19 Vaccines
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Globalization, Workers, and Inequality in Developing Economies
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International Trade Policy: A Blessing or a Curse for Women?
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Trade Law on the Factory Floor: Increased Firm-Centrism in Social Sustainability Trade Tools
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Trade and Labour Standards: Sustaining Social Regionalism through Multilateralism
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Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation: Towards Assessing and Equitably Allocating the Sustainable Development Costs of Trade Agreements
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Deep Decarbonization Ambition and Equity: A case study of the steel sector in India in the context of the EU’s CBAM and Other International Developments
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Steel Decarbonization in India (Delhi)