After the Deluge: Reconfiguring International Trade for a Sustainable Future

Wed Sep 24, 2025 4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.
Global Action

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This session will explore how current trade tensions and evolving policies are affecting the sustainability landscape and prospects for global climate change cooperation.

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Trade policy chaos has become one of the most debated topics in global politics as political turmoil and deep divides threaten the international order that has been in place since the end of World War II. 

This session will unpack how current trade tensions and evolving policies – including America’s tariff spikes, the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and the return of industrial policy in many nations – are affecting the sustainability landscape and prospects for global climate cooperation. 

It will further explore how businesses, governments, and those who care about a sustainable future can navigate this uncertainty, advance worldwide climate change action, and deliver the transformative economic changes required to move to a net-zero greenhouse gas future by 2050.

Location: Tap Room | Doors Open at 3:30 PM

This session will also be available as a webinar; it is the only session on Wednesday, September 24 that can be accessed virtually. Register via Zoom.

Panelists

Moderator

  • Dan Esty

    Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University and Co-Lead, Remaking Trade Project