Events

(please see below for the events by theme)

March 2010

February 2010

December 2009

  • 7-18 December: United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 15), Copenhagen, Denmark. For the special website on ICTSD’s activities alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 and a full overview thereof, please click here.

—- Tuesday 8 December

—- Thursday 10 December

—- Friday 11 December

—- Monday 14 December

—- Tuesday 15 December: TRADE AND CLIMATE CHANGE DAY

(participation on request; to register please click here; if you have difficulties with registration please contact Samantha Derksen sderksen@ictsd.ch)

  • 09:00-10:00  Plenary Session “Trade and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities”
  • 10:15-13:00  Roundtable on “Competitiveness and Emissions Leakage: Border Measures and Beyond”
  • 10:15-13:00  Roundtable on “Clean Energy Generation and Lean Energy Use: Interweaving Trade and Regulatory Frameworks”
  • 14:30-17:30  Roundtable on “Aid for Trade and Climate Change Financing: Key Implications for LDCs and SIDS”
  • 14:30-17.30  Roundtable on “Bunker Fuels: On Course or in the Air?”
  • 17:30-18:30 Synthesis Session “Implications of Trade for UNFCCC Negotiations”

—- Wednesday 16 December

—- Thursday 17 December

—- Friday 18 December

November 2009

October 2009

September 2009

June 2009

May 2009

April 2009

March 2009

  • 24 March 2009: Innovation and Diffusion of Climate Technologies: What Role for WIPO?, side event at the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP), Geneva, Switzerland
  • 27 March 2009: Climate Change, Transfer of Technology and IPRs: The Challenge of Evidence-based Policy, side event alongside the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP), Geneva, Switzerland

February 2009

December 2008

November 2008

October 2008:

  • 21 October: Informal Dialogue to Support LDCs Engagement in EGS Negotiations at the WTO, Geneva, Switzerland

September 2008

May 2008

December 2007

October 2007

June 2007

May 2007

  • 10 May: High-level Dialogue on International Trade, Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Transition: Advancing Sustainable Development Objectives, in collaboration with UNEP and Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, 15th Session of the UNCSD, New York, USA

April 2007


EVENTS BY THEME:

Generative dialogue between trade policy and climate change communities:

Regional Dialogue on Trade Policy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Dialogue for the Asia-Pacific Region, co-organised with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), 6-7 November, Singapore

WTI-ICTSD Trade Policy Dialogues: Creating Convergence - A “Trade and Climate Code”, 28 September, Geneva, Switzerland

Trade and Climate Change: Development Aspects of Climate Change Policies of OECD Countries, co-organised with the Resources for the Future (RFF) and ENTWINED, 5 May 2009, Washington DC, USA

Three regional dialogues on Trade and Climate Change in Asia, Africa and Latin America, co-organised with the International Institute for Trade and Sustainable Development (IISD) and regional partners, April-May 2009, Bangkok, Thailand; Johannesburg, South Africa; Rio, Brazil

Trade Policy nexus with Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Developments for the Asia Pacific Region, co-organised with the Temasek Foundation Centre on Trade and Negotiations, 18-20 February 2009, Singapore

Trade, Climate Change and Development, co-organised with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), 3 May 2008, Stockholm, Sweden

High-level Dialogue on International Trade, Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Transition: Advancing Sustainable Development Objectives, co-organised with UNEP and the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, 10 May 2007, 15th Session of the UNCSD, New York, USA

Enabling a scale up of innovation, diffusion, and technology transfer through trade policy

Dialogue on “Transfer of Climate Change Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities at Copenhagen and Beyond”, alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 16 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

UNFCCC Side Event on “Patents and Clean Energy: Bridging the Gap between Evidence and Policy”, co-organised with UNEP and EPO, side event alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, Bella Center room 3, 18 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Investment: Insights for the Negotiations from the Trade and Climate Change Body of Research, side event alongside the UNFCCC negotiations, 3 November, Barcelona, Spain

Climate Change, Technology Transfer and IPRs: Recent Developments and the Way Forward, side event alongside the UNFCCC negotiations, 11 June, Bonn, Germany

Meeting of the Expert Group under The ICTSD Initiative on Climate Technology and Trade, alongside the UNFCCC negotiations, 8 June, Bonn, Germany

Climate Change, Transfer of Technology and IPRs: The Challenge of Evidence-based Policy, side event at the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP), 27 March 2009, Geneva, Switzerland

Innovation and Diffusion of Climate Technologies: What Role for WIPO?, side event at the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP), 24 March 2009, Geneva, Switzerland

A post-2012 Technology and Finance Framework: Opportunities and Challenges, co-organised with the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), and Sussex University, side event alongside the UNFCCC COP 14, 5 December 2008, Poznan, Poland

Scaling-up Energy Efficiency and Access to Clean Energy Technologies: Options for International Cooperation, co-organised with the International Energy Agency (IEA), UNEP and the Danish Ministry of the Environment, 5 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia

Intellectual Property and Access to Clean Energy Technologies in Developing Countries - An Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic, Biofuel and Wind Technologies, 22 October 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

Accelerating Trade in Climate-friendly Goods and Services

UNFCCC Side Event on “Trade Liberalisation, Market Drivers and Technology Diffusion: A Look at the Renewable Energy and Buildings Sector”, side event alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 8 December 2009, Bella Center room 7, Copenhagen, Denmark

Roundtable on “Clean Energy Generation and Lean Energy Use: Interweaving Trade and Regulatory Frameworks”, at the ICTSD Trade and Climate Change Day alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 15 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

Trade and Climate Change in Emerging Economies: The Competitiveness, Technology, and Intellectual Property Rights Dimension, Informal Dialogue, co-organised with Research and Information Systems (RIS), 30 March 2010, New Delhi, India

Trade in Energy-Efficient Products: Implications for Environmental Goods Negotiations, Informal Roundtable, co-organised with the Government of Japan, 22 September, Geneva, Switzerland

Mapping Goods, Trade Flows and Trade Barriers in the Renewable Energy Supply Sector, Informal Roundtable, 24 April 2009, Geneva, Switzerland

Diffusion of Climate Change Friendly Technologies: The Potential of Trade Policies in the Transition towards a Green Economy, side event at the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum 2009, 16 February 2009, Nairobi, Kenya

Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Energy Supply and Buildings Sectors, co-organised with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and the Energy, and the Resources Institute (TERI), side event alongside the UNFCCC COP 14, 2 December 2008, Poznan, Poland

Informal Dialogue to Support LDCs Engagement in EGS Negotiations at the WTO, 21 October 2008, Geneva, Switzerland

Sustainable Development Opportunities and Challenges of Trade in Energy Services in the WTO and Beyond, 20 April 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

Ensuring incorporation of agriculture and biofuels in sustainable strategies

Agriculture

ICTSD-IPC Lunch Discussion on “Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade”, alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 10 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

ICTSD-IPC Dialogue on “Climate Change and Food Security: Taking Stock at the COP 15”, alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 11 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

Climate Change and International Agricultural Trade Rules, 1 October, Geneva, Switzerland.

Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade, 29 October, Washington DC, US

Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade on the Road to Copenhagen, 12 May 2009, Salzburg, Austria

Climate Change and Agriculture: The Role of Trade, side event alongside the 17th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, 12 May 2009, New York, US

Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade: Promoting Policy Coherence, alongside the UNFCCC negotiations, 5 April 2009, Bonn, Germany

Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade: Promoting Policy Coherence, side event alongside the UNFCCC negotiations, 6 April, Bonn, Germany,

Climate Change – the Role of Food and Agricultural Trade, alongside the UNFCCC COP 14, 9 December 2008, Poznan, Poland

Biofuels

Biofuels in Asia: Striking a Balance between Trade, Agriculture and Energy Policies, co-organised with the International Institute for Trade and Development (ITD), SEA START, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), 9-10 November, Bangkok, Thailand

Biofuels, Trade Policy and Sustainable Development, 17 June 2009, Geneva, Switzerland

Bioenergy, Agriculture, International Trade and Sustainable Development, side event alongside the 16th Session of the UNCSD, 14 May 2008, New York

Biofuels as Alternative Energy: A Regional Outlook, co-organised with the Ecuadorian Centre of Environmental Law (CEDA), and the support of the Andean Community (CAN), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and the Latin American University for Social Sciences (FLACSO), 17-18 October 2007, Quito, Ecuador

Defining policy tools and mechanisms to make adaptation possible

Roundtable on “Aid for Trade and Climate Change Financing: Key Implications for LDCs and SIDS”, at the ICTSD Trade and Climate Change Day alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 15 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lunch Discussion on “Leveraging Trade Flows and Aid for Trade to Maximize Benefits for LDCs and SIDS”, alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 14 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

UNFCCC Side Event on “Climate Change and Cooperation; LDCs, SIDS and SVEs”, co-organised with the Commonwealth Secretariat, side event alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 11 December 2009, Bella Center room 1, Copenhagen, Denmark

African Regional Dialogue on Trade and Climate Change, co-organised with the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 6–7 May 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa

Climate Change Finance and Aid for Trade: Maximizing Benefits for LDCs and SIDS, side event alongside the UNFCCC negotiations, 2 November, Barcelona, Spain

Trade and Climate Change: Key Issues for LDCs, SVEs, and SIDS from a Competitiveness, Adaptation and Resilience Perspective, co-organised with Chatham House, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, 20-21 November 2008, Geneva

Regional Dialogue on Trade and Climate Change: Addressing Key Issues for LDCs, SVEs, and SIDS, co-organised with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Mauritius, 2-3 September 2008, Mauritius

Addressing carbon leakage and competitiveness through equitable policies

Climate Consortium Denmark Side Event on “Competitiveness Impacts and Carbon Leakage: Assessing the Evidence and the Policy Options”, co-organised with IISD, alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 17 December 2009, Bella Center Climate Consortium Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Roundtable on “Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage: Border Measures and Beyond“, at the ICTSD Trade and Climate Change Day alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 15 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

Climate Change, Competitiveness and Trade Policy: Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of the Multilateral Trading System, WTO Public Forum, 25 September 2008, Geneva

International Trade, Climate Change and Global Competitiveness, co-organised with UNEP and the World Bank, 4 October 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

Dealing with de-carbonization of transportation and bunker fuels

Roundtable on “Bunker Fuels: On Course or in the Air?“, at the ICTSD Trade and Climate Change Day alongside the UNFCCC COP 15 negotiations, 15 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

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