Past Events

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 16^th of November, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in collaboration with the TSPN Secretariat, will organize the inaugural meeting of a 3^rd 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