IPCSpecial Events

Climate Change, and International Agricultural Trade Rules

October 1, 2009

Geneva, Switzerland

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Both climate change itself and policy responses to climate changes will have an impact on international trade, and may require some clarification of, or possibly adjustment to multilateral trade rules. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) are convening this Geneva meeting of their joint platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade: Promoting Policy Coherence, to examine the nexus between climate change, climate change policies and WTO rules applicable to food and agricultural trade. The 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.

Meeting Information

Agenda

Presentations

Session 1: Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade

• The Role of Trade in Food and Agricultural Products in Climate Change Adaptation Costs
  Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Aid for Trade, Climate Change and Agriculture
  Jodie Keane, Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Session 2: Trade Policy Measures to Address Climate Change

• Embodied Carbon in Agricultural Traded Goods and Related Trade Measures
  James Macgregor, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies and Agriculture: Implications for Production Incentives and International Trade Disciplines
  Tim Josling, Stanford University, IPC Member
• Agricultural Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries: Policy Options for Innovation and Technology Diffusion
  Dan Sumner, University of California
  

Session 3: WTO Considerations and Recommendations

• Carlos Pérez del Castillo, Former Representative of Uruguay to the WTO; IPC Member

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