The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights that forest conservation, improved management, and restoration offer the most substantial potential for economic mitigation.

The primary goal of this roundtable at MC13 is to facilitate meaningful and solutions-oriented dialogue and knowledge-sharing toward achieving deforestation-free global value chains, which are effective, fair, and inclusive. It will also increase trade policymakers’ awareness around the interlinkages of trade policy and related measures, environmental regulations, livelihoods, and environmental protection.

Key themes of the discussion will be national and international efforts of forest protection, private sector initiatives, innovative sustainable business models, and key enabling policy solutions. In recognizing that deforestation is just one facet of climate change and nature loss challenges, participants will explore how businesses, including smallholders, local communities and indigenous peoples can prepare for potential supply chain disruption resulting from additional environmental sustainability market regulations, and the role of trade and trade policy to support in this transition.

The session will explore the fair allocation of the burden of change in global supply chains, and support for small business, producers, and marginalized communities to enable a just climate transition.