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Promoting and Facilitating Trade in Environmental Goods and Services: Lessons From Regional Trade Agreements

Christophe Bellmann and Mahesh Sugathan
Aid for Trade Priorities on Plastic Pollution

Mahesh Sugathan
Plastic Pollution and Trade Across the Life Cycle of Plastics: Options for Amending the Harmonized System to Improve Transparency

Carla Vaca Eyzaguirre and Carolyn Deere Birkbeck
Securing a Just and Inclusive Global Green Economy Through Trade Policy

Nicolas Lockhart, Dominic Coppens, Katherine Connolly, and Stella Perantakou
Trade and Climate Change in the World Trade Organization

Christophe Bellmann
Trade and Environment at the World Trade Organization: State of Play and Entry Points

Christophe Bellmann, Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Marianne Kettunen, and Mahesh Sugathan
By: Richard Baldwin | Anabel Gonzalez | Chad Bown | André Sapir | Tetsuya Watanabe | Jonathan Fried
Getting America Back In The Game: A Multilateral Perspective

How can friends of the multilateral system re-engage the United States under President-elect Biden?

By Richard Baldwin, Chad Bown, Jonathan Fried, Anabel Gonzalez, André Sapir and Tetsuya Watanabe

The Trump administration forcefully and explicitly undermined multilateral economic cooperation. This could not have come at a worse time. The world is facing two immediate and era-defining challenges in 2021: the global pandemic, and the global recession. Equally important is the need for multilateral cooperation on climate and the environment. Tackling these challenges will require constructive engagement of all the world’s largest economies.

How should nations who support multilateralism help get America back to supporting, strengthening, and improving a fair, rules-based trading system that provides good jobs, rising living standards, and prosperity for all?

On the current trajectory, the answer to that question seems destined to rely on bilateralism. We argue that bilateralism is not the right way to spark multilateralism. We suggest that there is a bigger, bolder, broader, more multilateral pathway to a reinvigorated international economic cooperation. The plan has two pillars: 1) working together, and 2) formulating initiatives as ‘trade tracks’ in the broad portfolio of foreign policy and climate policy initiatives.