Focus panel 15 – Trade for sustainable development: how to benchmark success?

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Summary

This debate is about setting new goals for economic and trade policy. Their success should no longer be measured by the increase in gross national product, but by the reduction in poverty in the world, by their contribution to the fight against the impending climate catastrophe, by their contribution to achieving by 2030 the sustainable development goals, to which all member states of the United Nations have committed themselves. This event will discuss new indicators of a successful trade policy for politicians, managers, academic discourse and civil society.

The panel will be divided in two separate rounds with the speakers’ presentations and reactions by discussants.

Programme:

 

Video message: (3 min)

James Shaw, Minister for Climate Change of New Zealand (video message)

 

Panel I: (30 min)

  • Speaker 1: Professor Olivier de Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
  • Speaker 2: Jean-Marie Paugam, WTO Deputy Director General
  • Speaker 3: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary General UNCTAD
  • Speaker 4: Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director International Trade Centre (ITC)

 

Discussants: (15 min)

  • Maria Martin-Prat De Abreu, Deputy Director General DG TRADE, EU Commission
  • Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament, INTA Committee.

 

Moderator: Judith Kirton-Darling, Deputy Secretary General industriAll Europe

 

Slido feedback (10 min)

 

Panel II: (30 min)

  • Speaker 1: Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, Ambassador of Brazil to the European Union,
  • Speaker 2: Anaïs Berthier, Senior Lawyer and Head of ClientEarth's Brussels office
  • Speaker 3: Melinda St. Louis, Director, Public Citizens Global Trade Watch, USA
  • Speaker 4: Souad Aden-Osman, Executive Director Coalition for Dialogue in Africa, Addis Abeba

 

Discussants: (15 min)

  • Maria Martin-Prat De Abreu, Deputy Director General DG TRADE, EU Commission
  • Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament, INTA Committee.
  • Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, IISD's Interim Co-President and Co-CEO

Moderator: Judith Kirton-Darling, Deputy Secretary General industriAll Europe

Slido feedback (10 min)

Conclusion: Helmut Scholz (2 min)

Speaker

Helmut Scholz
Member of the European Parliament (The Left), INTA Committee, Beyond Growth Conference organiser

Maria Martin-Prat De Abreu
Deputy Director General DG TRADE, EU Commission

Souad Aden-Osman
Executive Director Coalition for Dialogue in Africa

Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder
Vice-President, Global Strategies and Managing Director Europe, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Anaïs Berthier
Senior Lawier and Head of ClientEarth’s Brussels office

Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Executive Director International Trade Centre (ITC)

Judith Kirton-Darling
Deputy General Secretary of IndustriAll European Trade Union

Melinda St. Louis
Director, Public Citizens Global Trade Watch

Jean-Marie Paugam
WTO Deputy Director General

Olivier De Schutter
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

James Shaw
Minister for Climate Change of New Zealand

Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva
Ambassador of Brazil to the European Union

Pedro Manuel Moreno
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)