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Special Event: Building Common Ground on Climate and Trade
Past Event
September 23, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm est
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During New York Climate Week, join the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia SIPA and the Government of Brazil for conversations with high-level international policymakers and stakeholders on challenges and opportunities at the intersection of climate and trade and ways to bridge gaps and foster collaborative approaches. Program highlights include:
A conversation between André Corrêa do Lago, Incoming President of COP30; and Jason Bordoff, CGEP Founding Director
Additional speakers include:
H.E. Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd – Assistant Foreign Minister for Climate and Sustainable Development, Arab Republic of Egypt
Julio Cordano – Director of Environment, Climate Change, and Oceans, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile
Jake Werksman – Principal Advisor for International Aspects of EU Climate Policy, European Commission
Dave Banks, American Council on Capital Formation/CGEP
Lutz Morgenstern – Head of Division, Directorate of International Climate Action & Energy Transition, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Germany
Jo Tyndall – Director of the Environment Directorate, OECD
Vitor Vaz – First Secretary for Climate Negotiation (DNCL), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
Dougal McInnes, Assistant Secretary of the United States Branch, Commonwealth of Australia
Ambassador Philip Fox-Drummond Gough, Vice-Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
While trade is increasingly recognized as an important lever to turn climate ambition into action, there is growing concern that the trade impacts of some climate policies may unfairly disadvantage other countries in their transition to a net-zero, climate-resilient economy. To fulfill trade’s potential as a transformative tool supporting climate action, new spaces are urgently needed for dialogue, trust building, and collaboration.
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil will launch the Integrated Forum on Climate Change and Trade, a three-year interdisciplinary dialogue among interested governments to find avenues for collaboration at the trade and climate nexus and enable ambitious climate action. For the past year, CGEP has led an International Dialogue on Climate and Trade to help build common ground for cooperative solutions. The event will highlight key developments and perspectives on the climate-trade front and ways these initiatives can point toward cooperative solutions.
This special event invitation has limited capacity and is non transferable. Please register as soon as possible to secure your place at the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j15toAJ2BnE The growth of green industrial policy in major economies is creating friction between climate and trade. If allowed to escalate, these frictions may disrupt climate action and...
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• International Affairs Building,
Columbia SIPA
Around the world, countries are making transformative investments and deploying innovative trade policies to meet the urgent challenge of climate change.
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• Penn Club of New York, 30 W. 44 St., New York, NY 10036
Room/Area: Spruce Street Room
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