What Role for Trade in the Post-2015 Development Agenda?
5:00pm - 6:00pm /
Thursday 18th February 2016
/ Venue: Lecture Theatre 8 Rendall Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
- Rachel Barrett
- Admission: Free
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Professor Mary E Footer University of Nottingham School of Law
In late September 2015 the UN convened the long-awaited Sustainable Development Summit where more than 150 Heads of State and Government met and adopted the 2030 Agenda for Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While Agenda 2030 provides the world with a shared development agenda, the responsibility to implement the SDGs in a transparent, inclusive and participatory manner rests with countries individually and collectively. Trade is seen as an engine for sustainable economic growth and development, and as essential for implementing a sustainable development strategy, but in an increasingly fractured world what does that mean in practice? Given the various synergies that exist between trade and other policy areas, which cut across the different SDGs, this presentation seeks to unpack and clarify the role that trade might play in the post-2015 Development Agenda.
In late September 2015 the UN convened the long-awaited Sustainable Development Summit where more than 150 Heads of State and Government met and adopted the 2030 Agenda for Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While Agenda 2030 provides the world with a shared development agenda, the responsibility to implement the SDGs in a transparent, inclusive and participatory manner rests with countries individually and collectively. Trade is seen as an engine for sustainable economic growth and development, and as essential for implementing a sustainable development strategy, but in an increasingly fractured world what does that mean in practice? Given the various synergies that exist between trade and other policy areas, which cut across the different SDGs, this presentation seeks to unpack and clarify the role that trade might play in the post-2015 Development Agenda.