{"id":3971,"date":"2026-03-05T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:49:04","slug":"standards-drivers-trade-resilience-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/standards-drivers-trade-resilience-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Standards as Drivers of Trade Resilience and Competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"o-section o-section--small-margin o-section--wysiwyg paragraph paragraph--type--wysiwyg paragraph--view-mode--default component-72332\">\n<div class=\"u-container\">\n<section class=\"o-section__content o-content-from-editor js-content-from-editor\" lang=\"en\">IISD will co-host a virtual dialogue with our partners ISEAL to explore how sustainability standards influence trade opportunities and their role in strengthening resilience and competitiveness in international value chains.As governments integrate sustainability objectives into trade frameworks, voluntary sustainability standards are increasingly referenced as tools to support compliance and advance these objectives.The discussion will reflect on practical experiences from developing and developed countries and assess both the opportunities and the limitations of using voluntary sustainability standards to foster sustainable trade.<\/p>\n<p>By bringing together policy-makers, standard-setters, international organizations, and researchers, the event will provide a space to identify lessons learned and future directions for leveraging sustainability standards in the context of evolving trade priorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" style=\"background-color: #5abc89;\" href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_hLc7dz4VSgSbrQUklDDJHQ?os=ipad#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>REGISTER NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IISD will co-host a virtual dialogue with our partners ISEAL to explore how sustainability standards influence trade opportunities and their role in strengthening resilience and competitiveness in international value chains.As governments integrate sustainability objectives into trade frameworks, voluntary sustainability standards are increasingly referenced as tools to support compliance and advance these objectives.The discussion will reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webinar","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}