AGENDA


10:45 AM	Opening Franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Trade and Economic Attractiveness.
11:00 AM	Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President of the European Commission
	Session 1 - Adopting new environmental and social autonomous instruments linked to trade policy: focus on the future European regulation on deforestation-free products
11:30 - 12:45 PM	Round table n°1: Fighting against global deforestation and forest degradation: insight of the EU proposal of regulation - Moderator: Marianne Kettunen, Senior Policy Advisor and Head of Partnerships - Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) - Guests: Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director General, DG Environment of the European Commission Christophe Hansen, Member of the European Parliament, EPP André Guimarães, Executive Director, IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) Nicolas Neykov, Managing Director, Ferrero France Questions and answers with the audience Issues covered: This roundtable aims to give a broad overview of the issue of global deforestation and forest degradation, to shed light on efforts undertaken by the private sector and through public policies, as well as on challenges that still have to be met, and to which the future European text will have to address.
	Session 2 - Strengthening sustainability provisions in trade agreements: focus on social dispositions
2:30 PM	Presentation on the use of trade agreements as a lever to achieve sustainability Katherine Tai, US Trade Representative Exchange with Vivienne Walt, Time Magazine correspondent
3:00 - 4:15 PM	Round table: Strengthening the ambition of social provisions in trade agreements Introduction: Lisa Kristine, humanitarian photographer - Moderator: Desirée LeClercq, Employment and Labor Law Professor, Cornell University - Guests: Bernd Lange, Chair of the Committee on International Trade, European Parliament Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Law Martha E. Newton, Deputy Director-General for policy, ILO Tanja Buzek, Chair of the Trade Committee, European Economic and Social Committee Questions and answers with the audience Issues covered: This roundtable will focus on the growing importance of social provisions in trade agreements, in order to contribute to a fairer globalization. It will be an opportunity to touch upon convergences and specificities of European and American approaches to achieve this objective. It will deal with ways to increase their ambitions and to improve their enforceability, while also strengthening the synergies with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the involvement of civil society.
	Session 3 - Improving the integration of sustainable development issues at the World Trade Organization (WTO)
4:30 PM	Presentation of the latest news regarding the taking into account of sustainable development at the WTO Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, WTO
5:00 - 6:15 PM	Round table: Including plastic pollution at the WTO - Moderator: Rodolfo Lacy, Director for the Environment Directorate, OECD - Guests: Stephen de Boer, Canada’s Permanent Representative to the WTO Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Senior Research Associate, Graduate Institute Geneva Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNiCTaD) Roberto Sanchez Palomino, Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru Questions and answers with the audience Issues covered: This round table will be an opportunity to come back on the global issue of plastic pollution, crucial both for climate and biodiversity, as well as the need to address its international trade dimension. It may refer to the work in progress at the WTO and UNEA, as well as other international initiatives, in order to explore their complementarities and strengthen their synergies.
6:15 PM	Closing Barbara POMPILI, Minister for Ecological Transition

Session 3 - Improving the integration of sustainable development issues at the World Trade Organization (WTO)