Week Ahead at the UN

World Trade Report Focus on the Environment, WHO Considers International Instrument for Pandemic Preparedness, COP26 Commitments Reverberate: The Banking Sector Looks at Sustainable Finance Models

World Trade Report 2021 Looks at the Role of International Cooperation in the Fight Against Climate Change

The 2021 WTO World Trade Report looked at the role of trade policies on environmental goods and services, ways that trade supports economic resilience, and how international cooperation mitigates climate change’s impact on supply chains.

Geneva was going to host the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference, MC12, this week, but the virus had other ideas, with a new variant (named Omicron by the World Health Organisation last Friday), putting a stop on travel from several countries in Africa. Ministers from the region would not be able to attend.