Biodiversity is essential to maintain healthy and resilient ecosystems, which sustain life-support systems on earth. As a consequence, the rapid decline of the world’s biodiversity has not only become an increasingly serious economic risk, but also a mounting threat to human survival.
In the Sustainable Development Goals, the global community has highlighted the importance of trade as a tool and essential means of implementation of sustainable development. At the same time, global trade exerts substantial pressures on the world’s ecosystems, with research estimating that 30% of global species threats and roughly 35% of tropical deforestation emissions are driven by international trade.
In the context of mounting calls for a New Deal for Nature, and increasing recognition on the important role of trade policy therein, this session will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss cutting-edge scientific insights, latest political perspectives, policy innovations on the relevance of trade policy to the post-2020 biodiversity framework, potential opportunities to be seized and gaps to be addressed.
Key questions:
- What are the available tools and metrics that can be used to measure trade-related impacts on biodiversity?
- What trade policy options exist to protect, sustainably use and restore biodiversity?
- Are there practical stakeholder initiatives that can generate buy-in and positive engagement toward sustainability?
- What are the challenges and opportunities for developing countries in a New Deal for Nature?
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This session will be simultaneously translated into French, Spanish and English (when needed) via the Interactio application, by entering the code GTW2020 (please use headphones). Open the application in your Web browser or download it for iOS Mobile App or for Android App.
