While interactions between trade and the environment are complex,
pursuing policy coherence is key to reversing degradation while leaving no one behind. A core dilemma is ensuring stricter environmental rules do not create competitive disadvantages, or negatively affect the least developed countries.
The latest
Still Only One Earth policy brief explores how recent country-led initiatives on trade and environmental sustainability, trade and plastics pollution, and fossil fuel subsidies, plus the ongoing
talks on fisheries subsidies, offer hope for breaking the years-long deadlock on trade and the environment.
Read
the brief