During its final two years, the Trade, Development and Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) has been focusing on outreach, synthesis and collaboration, starting to develop key final outputs such as its “Pathways to Just and Sustainable Trade” and engaging with relevant … Read More
Planetary Welcare Compass Illustration by Josh Knowles.
TRADE Hub researcher and UNEP-WCMC’s Head of Policy, Thiago Kanashiro Uehara, recently published a paper titled “Planetary Welcare Principles for Just and Sustainable Futures: A Compass for System Change, Trade Reforms, … Read More
A session at the Global Development Conference 2023: Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
(31 Oct – 1 Nov 2023) | Quito, Ecuador
Session date: 31 Oct
Session time: 14 – 15.30 (Quito)
There is increasing recognition of the role that trade … Read More
On October 10, the TRADE Hub co-organised the second webinar of its new “Nature-positive trade” series. This webinar focused on identifying opportunities for trade policy in supporting sustainable use of marine resources, including fisheries.
The event was a collaboration between … Read More
On June 16, the TRADE Hub co-organised the first webinar of its new “Nature-positive trade” series. This webinar focused on identifying opportunities for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity with a view to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted by countries … Read More
Introduction
On International Indigenous People’s Day, we are reminded of the vital connection between international trade and Indigenous Peoples. For centuries, Indigenous Peoples have been deeply connected to their ancestral lands, which are home to natural resources valuable to
September 9th, 2022
A new documentary created by the Trade, Development and Environment Hub (TRADE Hub), led by UNEP-WCMC, gives perspectives from Cameroonian farmers about the increasing global demand for sustainably produced agricultural commodities, as Western governments look … Read More
Researchers from the TRADE Hub have spent over two years exploring the various policies and instruments that have potential to increase the level of sustainability of the soybean supply chain in Brazil: home to the world’s greatest production and export … Read More
The GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub (TRADE Hub) has created a searchable catalogue of available initiatives, measures, models, data providers, platforms, portals and round table certifications to support decision making on trade and the environment. The Trade Tools … Read More
The TRADE Hub hosted a two-day meeting, on 20th and 21st April, to discuss sustainability in commodity supply chains. With idea exchange and collaboration between a broad range of relevant stakeholders, from researchers to representatives of private sector … Read More
There is a growing demand for the corporate and financial sectors to address their relationship with nature. Recent years have seen improved understanding of the economic value at risk from the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems services, which has led … Read More
TRADE Hub researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute published a response to the UK government’s public consultation on the implementation of due diligence legislation,
The legislation proposed by the UK government would introduce mandatory due diligence requirements for companies using … Read More
What is the responsibility of supply chain actors in addressing production level impacts?
As attention grows on the negative impacts of unsustainable production (See Discussion Paper 1), responsibility is placed on all supply chains actors – producers, traders, retailers, … Read More
On 15 December 2021, in a historic first, members the World Trade Organization (WTO) launched three high-level ministerial statements recognizing the nexus of international trade and trade policy and the environment. The ministerial statements call for the global trade body … Read More
A woman holding coffee beans in her palms. We have teams working on coffee in Tanzania and Indonesia.
Gender inequality is unsustainable. Women make up a greater number of people living in poverty, with those in poverty disproportionately and negatively … Read More
The TRADE Hub research team is using expertise from a range of social and environmental sciences to better understand the COVID-Trade-Policy nexus. The team have conducted COVID-focused research on wildlife and the wildmeat trade which has had impact on how … Read More
This Thursday, on January 20 from 13:00 – 17:00 WIB (6 – 10am GMT), the TRADE Hub’s Indonesia team will be presenting their research on sustainable trade in palm oil, coffee and songbirds in Indonesia.
The webinar will relate back … Read More
A major goal of the TRADE Hub is to help countries manage, share, and apply their research, thus strengthening their impact capacity. A central tenant of the TRADE Hub capacity building programme is that it is co-designed and equitable. Therefore, … Read More
Image caption: High-level dialogue at COP26, co-hosted by the GCRF TRADE Hub, on how cooperation on trade can support climate action and sustainable development (held at the Blue Zone of COP26, Glasgow (UK) 2021). The dialogue featured imminent experts on … Read More
3 December 2021
On Friday 3rd December 2021, the GRCF TRADE Hub in partnership with Tulip Consulting organized a panel discussion as part of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Hub 2021.
The discussion focused on the need to develop environmental … Read More
Rodrigo Oyanedel
This post introduces and summarizes research published in the journal Conservation Biology. Click here for the full publication.
Sustainable, well-regulated wildlife trade helps support biodiversity, provides livelihoods around the world and is crucial … Read More
The development of global agricultural value chains has been widely promoted as an economic development strategy in recent years. However useful for GDP growth, … Read More
Global economies increasingly depend upon international trade to deliver their goods and services, with the most recent trade data from the World Bank illustrating that the value of imports can equate to as much as 175% of some regions’ Gross … Read More
Whether trade is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for our societies and the environment has been a topic of ongoing debate. This brief is a simple overview of some of the costs and benefits associated with trade, and why it is an … Read More
by Yufang Su and Austin Smith
Originally posted on 30 Sep 2021 on www.worldagroforestry.org
Rubber expansion and decline have major implications for Chinese farmers, particularly women, and their livelihoods. In this feature, we examine the impact on women in Xishuangbanna,
17 March 2021
A webinar was held to promote TRADE Hub’s research on mechanisms to help end deforestation in agricultural supply chains and foster further collaboration between the Hub and the private sector. This included participants from a range of … Read More
Trade, via global value chains (GVCs), connects different countries across the globe through complex processes of production and consumption, to form a highly integrated global economy. The value of exported goods alone account for almost
New working paper through a GCRF TRADE Hub collaboration
Businesses with agricultural supply chains depend on and impact biodiversity, both directly through their activities and indirectly through their supply chains and there is growing momentum to better assess and manage … Read More
To protect wildlife and tackle illegal and/or unsustainable trade in wildlife as a driver of biodiversity decline, TRADE Hub’s researchers analyse the volumes and characteristics of local, domestic and international trade, aiming to
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Furthermore, studies have found that women are paid less than men, and do not progress as far in their scientific careers. Closing
A new report on sustainable resource trade and the role of trade policy therein, developed by the UNEP Global Resource Panel, and UNEP- Environment and Trade Hub was launched by UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson during the WTO Trade and … Read More
22nd January 2021
As we enter a last-chance decade for tackling the global nature crisis, scientists have outlined a new framework for implementing global commitments to restoring nature, The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy, or Four Steps for the Earth.… Read More
By Marcello De Maria* & Amayaa Wijesinghe§
* School of Agriculture, Policy and Development – University of Reading
This post is based on a scoping study of the global soybean trade conducted by the GCRF TRADE … Read More
Post by Elena Antoni – Project Manager and Co-Investigator of Policy Impacts and Solutions at the UKRI GCRF TRADE Hub
The … Read More
The UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund organized and supported a session at the (virtual) Geneva Trade Week 2020, a spin-off of the habitual World Trade Organization (WTO) Public Forum, organized by the newly founded Geneva Trade Platform. The session … Read More
TRADE Hub researchers Lacour Mody Ayompe (University of California, Irvine), Marije Schaafsma (University of Southampton) and Benis Egoh (University of California, Irvine) recently published a paper entitled ‘Towards sustainable palm oil production: the positive and negative impacts on ecosystem services … Read More
We are pleased to welcome four new researchers to our Trade Hub programme: Krossy Mavakala Kalunseviko, Suzanne Mogue Kamga, Alice Karuri and Lude Kinzonzi have joined as 2020/21 Africa Oxford Trade and University of Oxford Biodiversity Fellows.
The … Read More
For the first time, the high inequality in the distribution of agricultural land ownership in Brazil has been analysed using geospatial information about rural property ownership.
The 10th Issue of Sustainability in Debate, a publication by TRADE Hub partner … Read More
by Sicily Fiennes
UNEP-WCMC is leading the process to map and visualise research taking place across 5 country teams and 9 work packages within the GCRF TRADE Hub, using Impact Pathways. We are critically considering the proposed outputs across … Read More
Two TRADE Hub kick-off events were organized by the Indonesia country team. The national level project kick-off workshop was held in Jakarta on 4 March 2020, and a sub-national level workshop was held in Manokwari (West Papua Province) on … Read More
Aimee Seager, former Associate Programme Officer at UNEP-WCMC explores TRADE Hub research that was influential in framing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
Reversing the current trends of biodiversity loss is paramount for meeting the goals of the recently agreed … Read More
The Trade, Development and the Environment Hub, led by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), is bringing together organisations from different countries, including Brazil, to help make trade sustainable for people and the planet.
Together, these partners from industry, … Read More
