How stronger trade rules can help us meet climate goals
- Efforts to make supply chains more sustainable are held back by rules that are not well adapted to circular business models.
- Easing the flow of environmental goods and services will be critical in the coming years.
- The WTO should ensure that there is alignment between trade rules and climate change goals.
There is a vital need for countries to intensify environmental and climate action. Existing climate policies set us on a path to global warming of about 3?C above pre-industrial levels. Human action threatens the extinction of one million plant and animal species, compromising food security and livelihoods. Plastics and other forms of pollution are destroying land and water resources around the world.
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