📣Message from Ecuador
Coalition Co-lead Minister @LuisJaramilloOK 🇪🇨highlights the need for Ministerial-level leadership on:
➡️inclusive cooperation on climate, trade & sustainable development
➡️access to clean technologies, financing & capacity building for developing countries
On the occasion of #COP30, a message from the co-leads of @TradeMinClimate - Ecuador, the EU, Kenya & New Zealand- on the importance of:
➡️a trade contribution to the global response to climate change
➡️cooperation & collective action on trade, climate, & sustainable development
🇱🇹 Lietuvos valstybės atkūrimo diena!
…or at least, that’s what we tried to say. Turns out, Lithuanian pronunciation is a challenge, but our respect and admiration for the country is 100% real!
Interested to know how trade policy can help hit the renewable energy targets? ♻️🔋
Join @EUAmbWTO at the @WTO#TradeandEnvironment Week 2024, for a discussion on #COP28’s Renewable Energy Ambition 🌱🌍
📅9 October 2024
🕐From 11:00 until 12:15
📍WTO, Room W and online
Countries and companies worldwide are committed to tackling deforestation to achieve the UN SDGs and Paris Agreement goals.
Today, @ITCnews and @Trade_EU are hosting a roundtable @WTO to showcase best practices and efforts towards deforestation-free supply chains.
#EUGreenDeal
Amazing to be part of this dedicated group of people who work hard behind the scenes to deliver and promote positive contribution of international trade to fight against climate. #MC13@TradeMinClimate
“We need @wto that reflects & responds to world outside & responds to vulnerable countries & communities, yet addresses contemporary issues of economic & social importance.Judge this Ministerial by what it did do, not what it was not yet able to do this week” #WTOMC13AbuDhabi
However, we were disappointed at lack of breakthroughs in other areas.
EU engaged intensively on: fisheries subsidies, agriculture & WTO reform.
Agreements were within reach, supported by a big majority, but ultimately blocked by a handful of countries – sometimes just 1.
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💚 48 WTO members have presented tools to enhance transparency on fossil fuel subsidies, and set out detailed work plan to take forward to phase them out and to Paris Agreement objectives. 2/3
#MC13AbuDhabi
💚 It has been a good day for trade and the environment at @WTO#MC13AbuDhabi
Have a look 👇
78 WTO members outlines principles and actions to use trade as a tool to fight plastic pollution. 1/3
The EU also took part in a conversation with 76 wto members on
💚Trade policy's contribution to a circular economy
💚Trade related climate policies
💚Trade facilitation in green goods, tech and services.
A good day for trade and the environment is a good day for the WTO. 3/3
At their 2nd Ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi, 61 members endorsed a communiqué & Menu of Voluntary Actions with clear messages for #MC13, urging:
-> ambitious commitments on how the @WTO can support the global response to the climate crisis.
See👉https://t.co/180TSl0ABK
Interested in knowing how the EU wants to make WTO stronger and make it fit for the 21st century?
Read this piece by @VDombrovskis
https://t.co/UeEcwY6dnU via @FT
🌍 Trade policy can and must help fight climate change.
Great exchange with colleagues @TradeMinClimate from around the globe at #wef24 on trade, climate and finance.
We’ll work to break the silos to drive ambitious, inclusive action.
Our joint oped 👉 https://t.co/oxwcdGcAmX
Welcoming the EU’s Director General for Taxation and Customs Union, Mr @gerass_thomas for an information session on the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The session enabled many members from developing countries and emerging markets to share their concerns about the EU’s CBAM and to receive some constructive responses, including the way forward.
Very glad to be at the trade day at #COP28 - being here matters. The EU has taken on a leading role on the trade and climate agenda.
We work on different levels and at different fora to further the idea that climate action and trade policy go hand in hand. Have a look 👇🧵
At #COP28, join us as Trade Day highlights the Coalition and role for Ministerial leadership on:
▶️ a positive trade contribution to the climate agenda
▶️ inclusive cooperation on climate, trade & sustainable development
https://t.co/wZuRZCU9TR