Towards a More Sustainable Finance and International Trade System

Wednesday, 17 January, 2024, 10:00-11:15 CET

In the wake of the COP28 Climate Summit Meeting and the Global Stocktake that showed greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise and almost all nations falling far short of the emissions reductions required to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the potential to restructure the international trade system to provide sharper incentives for sustainable production and consumption offers a significant (and under-attended to) point of leverage for moving the global economy and business across all sectors onto a more sustainable trajectory.

Likewise, the finance world must be regeared to support the transition to a sustainable future with special emphasis on the innovation required to deliver capital to the developing world at the speed and scale required.

Moderated by Dan Esty, Professor, Yale University, USA & Co-Lead, Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future Project

with

Patrick Odier, Chairman of Building Bridges and President of Swiss Sustainable Finance

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Manuel Teehankee, Permanent Representative of Philippine to the World Trade Organization (WTO)

André Hoffmann, Vice-Chair, Roche and Co-founder, InTent 

Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Executive Director, Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs