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

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)