How Can Trade Contribute to Sustainability?

EconoFact Chats

How can international trade policy be aligned with global commitments to reduce inequality, transition to a clean energy future, and promote sustainable development? Joel Trachtman, a founding partner of the Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future Project joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the group’s new report, focusing on the natural links between trade and sustainable development goals as well as how trade policy can reconcile possible trade-offs between economic efficiency and sustainability goals. Joel is the Henry J. Braker Professor of Commercial Law at the Fletcher School, at Tufts University.