Fostering enhanced international cooperation on trade-related measures with climate objectives at the WTO: Coherence, transparency, development, and interoperability

This briefing note outlines the need for enhanced international cooperation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding trade-related measures with climate objectives, focusing on coherence, transparency, development, and interoperability.

• Governments are increasingly implementing trade-related policies to address climate crisis threats, but these measures are often fragmented and lack transparency, which may negatively impact development and overall effectiveness.
• International cooperation on trade-climate measures is driven by four primary rationales: the need for coherence, transparency, the inclusion of development considerations, and the support of interoperability and equivalences for current and future measures.
• The document proposes four levels of cooperation to achieve climate-trade objectives, ranging from general principles of international law and processes for measure implementation to specific design features and technical aspects.

APA

Bellmann, C., Birkbeck, C. D., Ismail, Y., & Nyaga, B. K. (2025). Fostering enhanced international cooperation on trade-related measures with climate objectives at the WTO: Coherence, transparency, development, and interoperability. Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs. https://tessforum.org/latest/fostering-enhanced-international-cooperation-on-trade-related-measures-with-climate-objectives-at-the-wto-coherence-transparency-development-and-interoperability

Chicago

Bellmann, C., C. Deere Birkbeck, Yasmin Ismail, and Brian Kelly Nyaga. Fostering enhanced international cooperation on trade-related measures with climate objectives at the WTO: Coherence, transparency, development, and interoperability. Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs, 2025. https://tessforum.org/latest/fostering-enhanced-international-cooperation-on-trade-related-measures-with-climate-objectives-at-the-wto-coherence-transparency-development-and-interoperability.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{bellmann2025fostering, author = {Bellmann, C. and Birkbeck, C. Deere and Ismail, Yasmin and Nyaga, Brian Kelly}, title = {{Fostering enhanced international cooperation on trade-related measures with climate objectives at the WTO: Coherence, transparency, development, and interoperability}}, institution = {Forum on Trade, Environment, \& the SDGs}, year = {2025}, month = sep, url = {https://tessforum.org/latest/fostering-enhanced-international-cooperation-on-trade-related-measures-with-climate-objectives-at-the-wto-coherence-transparency-development-and-interoperability}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }