BIICL has sent information on two upcoming events:
22nd BIICL Annual WTO Conference: Climate Change: Border Carbon Adjustment Approaches and the WTO (July 15)
Conference Details
Why are Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) Approaches being considered by an increasing number of countries? What are the factors to be accounted for to design a legitimate BCA in terms of both international trade and climate law? How can we utilize BCA as a means of pursuing legitimate interest such as responding to climate change while avoiding the risk of unilateralism?
To address these issues, the British Institute of International Comparative Law (BIICL) invites you to join the prestigious annual event in international trade law, the 2022 BIICL Annual WTO Conference.
At the conference, four eminent panels will explore the questions above featuring a wide range of speakers from government, international organizations, academia and legal practitioners.
Conference Organisers
This event is convened by Dr. Julinda Beqiraj, Maurice Wohl Senior Research Fellow in European Law and Munhee Jung, Senior Deputy Director of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, South Korea and a visiting researcher at BIICL with the kind assistance and support of Prof. Dr. Gabrielle Marceau, Senior Counsellor at WTO and BIICL Honorary Senior Fellow.
Programme
Panel 1. Rationale of BCA and Functioning
Panel 2. Approaches to BCA: EU CBAM and MorePanel 3. Design Consideration of BCA: Climate Perspectives, WTO Compatibility, Common but Different Responsibility
Panel 4. Carbon Club, Climate Alliance and More: Towards a Coalition of the Willing?
Event Details
The 12th session of the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) took place on 12-17 June 2022 at WTO headquarters in Geneva, after being postponed twice, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the highest decision-making body of the WTO, attended by trade ministers and other senior officials from the 164 WTO members, the Ministerial Conference was surrounded by high expectations. In the words of lead officers at WTO:
"Members can deliver results at MC12 despite challenging circumstances" - DG Okonjo-Iweala, 04/05/2022
"This might well be our Bretton Woods moment. Let's not waste it." - DDG Angela Ellard, 10/05/2022
At the conclusion of the Conference, trade ministers from around the world adopted a historic package - including the reduction of fishery subsidies, a loosening of vaccine-production limits, and the mitigation of the impact of a global food crisis. The agreements break the WTO's seven-year negotiations downturn, after four years of attacks under former President Trump administration, the COVID-19 pandemic, drained supply chains, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
This BIICL webinar will bring together experts at the WTO and in academia to discuss the results of the Conference and this historical alignment of the 164 WTO members (including Russia and Ukraine).
