Speakers: Emily Lydgate, Deputy Director at CITP and Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Sussex
Claire Wigg, Head of Climate Performance Practice at Exponential Roadmap
Devin McDaniels, Counsellor at the World Trade Organisation
Ritwika Sengupta, Net Zero Policy Manager at the British Standards Institution
Chair: Emily Lydgate, Deputy Director at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, the UK Trade Policy Observatory and Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Sussex
Despite trade turbulence, standards and regulatory requirements focusing on supply chain emissions are re-shaping trade patterns. The British Standards Institution commissioned the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy to research issues at the intersection of organizational standards, trade and the net-zero transition. Organizational standards that support firms to achieve net zero targets are a relatively new phenomenon. At their best, such standards are strategic drivers of change. But their breadth, emphasis on strategy and the moving target nature of net zero raises challenges. This event brought together the authors of the resulting Report to present their main findings, alongside experts from the WTO Secretariat, BSI and the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, to discuss how to navigate the current challenges facing trading firms in the net-zero transition.