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
2026 Investment Policy Forum
The 17th edition of IISD's Investment Policy Forum will take place from September 16 to 18, 2026, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Weathering the Waters: Building climate resilience that pays off
Join us to explore Canada’s adaptation progress, the rising costs of delay (water, floods, drought), and new ways to finance resilience.
Natural Solutions for Water Security: Canada's Policy Path Forward
This 2-day forum aims to advance strategic priorities and define practical next steps for accelerating the adoption of natural infrastructure as a new normal.
Unpacking National Investment Laws: Dispute settlement
Join IISD and UNCTAD for a webinar on May 7 as we explore key findings and recommendations from two recent publications on national investment laws and their investor–state dispute settlement provisions. A panel of experts will discuss the risks posed by dispute settlement provisions in investment laws, emerging good practices, and the urgent need for coherence between domestic legal frameworks and international treaty reform efforts.