Past Events
International Conference on “Standards for a Sustainable Agriculture and the Mitigation of Climate Change”
Conference organised by the Trade Standard Practitioners Network (TSPN) in collaboration with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO):
The main issues that will be addressed in the conference are:
- the contextualisation of voluntary product carbon/GHG footprint standards
(political, economic, environmental and sustainable development issues); - effectiveness, efficiency and distributional effects of these standards;
- the trends and relations between existing sustainability standards and emerging carbon-based standards and labelling schemes;
- developing country concerns and technical and institutional constraints in using product carbon/GHG footprint standards
as sustainable development instrument; - the identification of key outstanding issues and the role of TSPN and its members in addressing them.
Thursday afternoon (18 th Nov.) will be dedicated to a TSPN Member Meeting, which is open to all interested parties.
Please give us a short note whether you are interested in joining it as well.
A day ahead of the conference, on Tuesday 16th of November, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in collaboration with the TSPN Secretariat, will organize the inaugural meeting of a 3rd TSPN Working Group: "Private Sector Incentives and Constraints to Mainstreaming Private Voluntary Standards in Developing Countries".
To find out more visit: http://www.tradestandards.org/en/Article.154.aspx