Another forum to address trade & climate issues
The newly announced "Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate" has no less than 4 co-leads: #EU #Kenya #newzealand and #Eucador and 27 jurisdictions signed up (so far).
Aiming for Zero: mapping the impact of the EU's Action Plan on Pollution on its ‘green’ trade policy
The EU Action Plan 'Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil' (let’s call it the “ZPAP”) has the objective of:
“including pollution prevention in all relevant EU policies.”
Given the transboundary and cross-cutting nature of pollution, it’s unsurprising that many of the measures canvassed have an external dimension. Here’s an overview of how some of the pathways to ‘zero pollution’ may interact with the EU’s ‘green’ trade policy.
China’s ‘green’ trade credentials: what can we learn from a deeper dive?
China is talking the talk on climate change, but its buy-in to the ‘green trade’ narrative is more selective. It eschews many of the green trade tools favoured by the EU/US, its policies are closer aligned to developing countries and serve its regional interests. Still, it has its own tools to add to the global ‘green trade’ toolkit: green tech, green manufactured goods and improved efficiency of supply chains are potential contributions to a global ‘green trade’ strategy. As things stand, it looks set to follow its own path and has yet to set out what shade of ‘green’ it wants its future trading profile to be.
