Trade Partners' Retreat
IISD's Trade program hosted a full-day strategy meeting with its funders in Geneva on February 21, 2025. The meeting focused on reviewing the team's impact, exploring strategic opportunities, addressing challenges, and shaping its future direction.
For the first time, IISD's Trade program convened its group of funders for a meeting in Geneva on February 21, 2025. This event served as a platform to review the program's impact and discuss its future direction, as well as key strategic opportunities and challenges.
Attendees included representatives from governments and private foundations that support the program, alongside experts and leaders from IISD's Trade and Standards teams.
During the day-long meeting, we engaged with partners on our integrated approach to trade policy challenges. Discussions covered critical topics, such as environmentally harmful subsidies across various sectors, sustainability standards, and the growing role of industrial policy in an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment.
Upcoming events
Exploring Sustainable Markets and Trade Opportunities for COMESA Countries
This webinar series for COMESA member states, producers, and small and medium-sized enterprises aims to enhance their understanding of sustainability standards and regulatory developments.
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Vietnam exporters’ training
This workshop offers Viet Nam-based steel and aluminum exporters practical guidance on meeting their EU CBAM compliance obligations.
Bridging the Gap Between Tax and Investment Communities: Understanding tax incentives in investment laws
Webinar bringing together tax and investment communities to discuss coordination challenges in the design, approval, and oversight of tax incentives.
Fiscal Policy Responses to the Energy Price Shock – Session 2
The second webinar in a two-part Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action series, this event will explore how short-term support measures can protect vulnerable households and businesses while preserving price signals, maintaining fiscal sustainability, and supporting longer-term energy transition objectives.