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
IGF 22nd Annual General Meeting
The 22nd IGF AGM will be held under the theme of Trust in an Interdependent World: Advancing inclusion and resilience in mineral value chains.
Counting What Counts: Implementing beyond GDP metrics
This hybrid event will explore practical pathways for implementing Beyond GDP metrics at the national level.
Trade Policy in Support of Climate Change Adaptation: Sharing results from a research collaboration in Viet Nam and the Pacific
A webinar to help trade and climate policy-makers understand how trade policy can support climate change adaptation, drawing on new IISD research from Viet Nam and the Pacific.
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.