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IPC and ICTSD International Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and TradePromoting Policy CoherenceThis interdisciplinary platform of climate change, agricultural and trade experts will promote increased policy coherence to ensure effective climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security and a more open and equitable global food system. Climate Change and International Agricultural Trade Rules October 1, 2009 Geneva, Switzerland This meeting will profile a number of papers prepared by the Platform and seek to identify key policy questions at the nexus of climate change and international agricultural trade rules that should be addressed by the international community upon the conclusion of a new international climate change framework. May 2009 This brief examines how an open and flexible global trading environment plays a constructive role in both climate change mitigation and adaptation. A new international climate change regime and global trade rules should ideally be mutually reinforceable. Written by Franz Fischler this is part of the IFPRI 2020 Focus on “Agriculture and Climate Change: An Agenda for Negotiation in Copenhagen”.
May 26, 2009 Ahead of the June 1-12 Climate Change Talks taking place in Bonn, ICTSD and IPC released a statement and recommendations on the need to incorporate agriculture in a new international climate change regime. Experts' Meeting - "Climate Change, Agriculture, and Trade on the Road to Copenhagen" May 12, 2009 Salzburg Austria This third meeting of the IPC-ICTSD Platform explored additional areas at the nexus of climate change, agricultural and trade policy and began formulating Platform recommendations for the treatment of agriculture in the run-up to Copenhagen, climate change and the WTO, and development policy regarding climate change.
Policy Focus: International Climate Change Negotiations and Agriculture May 2009 The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the existing international climate change agreements and the international negotiations underway and to point out the ways in which the agricultural sector - is - or may be - addressed in the international climate regulatory framework.
Bonn Climate Change Talks Side Event Webcast April 6, 2009 Bonn Germany Discussing pressing policy matters at the interface between climate change and agricultural trade with the aim of outlining priorities for research and analysis that contribute to finding effective solutions through international cooperation in the context of climate negotiations.
Dialogue on “Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade: Promoting Policy Coherence” April 5, 2009 Bonn Germany The dialogue set out to discuss issues at the interface of climate change, agricultural policy and trade to assist the UNFCCC negotiators understand the linkages to agriculture and trade, and likewise, inform agricultural policy, trade policy experts and stakeholders about the policy inter-linkages between these three fields. The dialogue also sought to outline priorities for research and analysis.
Experts' Meeting on “Climate Change – the Role of Food and Agricultural Trade” December 9, 2008 Poznan Poland Significant research exists on the connections between climate change and agriculture. Only cursory treatment, however, has been given to the role of trade of food and agricultural products in this nexus, although it is a vast and important topic. Experts at this meeting discussed pressing policy matters at the interface between climate change and agricultural trade with the aim of outlining priorities for research and analysis that contribute to finding effective solutions through international cooperation in the context of negotiations towards Copenhagen 2009 and beyond. |