We meet regularly online to discuss the work of a colleague working in the intersection of trade and environment. If you are interested in presenting your work or proposing a speaker, please reach out to us at greentradelab@gmail.com. To receive notifications about upcoming webinars, you are welcome to join our mailing list. Below is a list of past and upcoming presentations.
Upcoming webinars
6 November 2025 at 15.00 CET with Thomas Hertel (Purdue University)
The role of trade in the global-local-global analysis of sustainability
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11 November 2025 at 12.00 CET with Memory Reid (University of the Witwatersrand)
Multispecies Justice in the Energy Transition: Realities from Southern Africa.
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20 November 2025 at 12.30 CET with Thiago Uehara (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre)
Planetary Welcare Principles and Trade Reforms
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25 November 2025 at 12.30 CET with Esther Wahabu (Radboud University)
REDD+ and Extractivism: Navigating Sustainability in Ghana’s Cocoa Landscapes
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4 December 2025 at 12.30 CET with Sabrina Robert and Florian Couveinhes-Matsumoto (École normale supérieure Paris)
Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework
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10 December 2025 at 15.30 CET with Lea Di Salvatore (University of Eastern Finland)
How International Investment Law Impedes Decarbonisation Efforts
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17 December 2025 at 14.30 CET with Elia Elisa Cia Alves (Universidade Federal da Paraíba)
Plastic Policies and Trade Flows: Brazil's perspective on global plastics negotiations
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13 January 2026 at 9.00 CET with Anja Bless (University of Technology Sydney)
Multi-national corporations and the environmental food regime
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20 January 2026 at 12.30 CET with Ayobami Adetoyinbo (Humboldt University Berlin)
Entrepreneurship and livelihood strategies among small-scale agrifood actors
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4 February 2026 at 11.30 CET with Mark Elder (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Hayama)
International trade and the Future of the Sustainable Development Goals
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9 February 2026 at 9.00 CET with Arunima Malik (University of Sydney)
Polarising and equalising trends in international trade and the SDGs
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17 February 2026 at 15.30 CET with Jan Börner (University of Bonn)
Pathways from global trade to biodiversity policy action
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25 February 2026 at 12.30 CET with Dan Challender (University of Oxford)
Lessons learned from CITES and current trends in unsustainable wildlife trade
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4 March 2026 at 12.00 CET with Yin Ruilong (Fuzhou University)
China’s approach to greening trade
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11 March 2026 at 15.00 CET with Alessio Terzi (Cambridge University)
The New Global Economic Order & Green Industrial Policy
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24 March 2026 at 15.00 CET with Andrew Fanning (Doughnut Economics Action Lab)
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries & a world out of balance
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7 April 2026 at 12.00 CEST with Nanang Indra Kurniawan (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Nickel extraction in Indonesia & the politics of international trade
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Past webinars
2025
Green Trade Lab #45 -- 27 October 2025 at 15.00 CET with Blanca González García-Mon (Stockholm Resilience Centre)
Fisheries Trade Networks: Dealing with Social-Ecological Changes
Green Trade Lab #44 -- 23 October 2025 at 14.00 CET with Timothé Beaufils (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
The Geopolitical Externality of Climate Policy
Green Trade Lab #43 -- 9 October 2025 at 15.30 CET with Dan Esty (Yale University)
Aligning the International Trade System with Climate Change Commitments
Green Trade Lab #42 -- 12 September 2025 at 13.30 CEST with Debmita Mondal and Ankit Awasthi (Hidayatullah National Law University)
Trading Knowledge in a Globalized World: India’s Legal and Policy Response to Indigenous Knowledge Governance
Green Trade Lab #41 -- 10 July 2025 at 12.30 CEST with Johanna Coenen (Stockholm University)
Conditions for an Effective EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products
Green Trade Workshop IV -- 3-4 July 2025 Early Career Researcher Workshop
The greening of trade as a way out of the polycrises? Regress, reforms and rebuilding international cooperation in the environment-trade nexus.
Green Trade Lab #40 -- 28 May 2025 at 15.30 CEST with Esra Akdogan (Wageningen University)
EU External Relations Law and Sustainability. The EU, Third States and International Organizations
Green Trade Lab #39 -- 30 April 2025 with Augustine Iraoya (Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa)
Evaluation of the effects of the African Continental Free Trade Area on Africa's Biodiversity
Green Trade Lab #38 -- 25 March 2025 with Kim Larsson (National Board of Trade Sweden)
The Cumulative Effects of EU Regulations and Trade-Related Agreements
Green Trade Lab #37 -- 26 February 2025 with Ksenia Kirkham (King’s College London)
The Impact of Western Sanctions on Global Supply Chains and the Green Transition
Green Trade Lab #36 -- 21 January 2025 at 15.00 CET with Jodie Keane (Overseas Development Institute)
Mitigating the Green Squeeze: Effectively Navigating New Green Trade Measures
2024
Green Trade Lab #35 -- 19 December 2024 at 15.30 CET with Brigitta Hermann (CBS International Business School)
Ethical World Trade and the Economy for the Global Good
Green Trade Lab #34 -- 3 December 2024 at 15.00 CET with Edona Dervisholi (Food and Agriculture Organization)
The perspective of the FAO on Trade & Environment - the Ag-ERPs database
Green Trade Lab #33 -- 12 November 2024 with Stephan Lutter (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
& Jim West (CSIRO Environment; International Resource Panel)
The Global Material Flows Database
Green Trade Lab #32 -- 10 October 2024 - 15:00 CEST with Bettina Rudloff (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
The new parallelism of due diligence and trade policy -- Chances and challenges from an EU's perspective
Green Trade Lab #31 -- 19 September 2024 - 15:00 CET with Susan E.M. Cesar de Oliveira (University of Brasília)
The EU and UK's deforestation-free supply chains regulations: Implications for Brazil.
Green Trade Workshop III -- 8-9 July 2024 Early Career Researcher Workshop
The Greening of Trade in Times of Planetary and Geopolitical Crises? Ideas, Institutions, and Interdependence in the Environment-Trade-Nexus
Green Trade Lab #30 -- 26 June 2024 10:00-11:00 CET with Mark Titley (Global Canopy)
Introduction to Trase & Supply Chain Transparency
Green Trade Lab #29 -- 16 May 2024 14:00 CET with Alessa Hartman (PowerShift)
A Case Study of CETA: Assessing the Climate Impact of Trade Policy and Agreements
Green Trade Lab #28 -- 26 April 2024 9:00 CET/ 15:00 UTC+7 with Maria Semenova & Alexey Kravchenko (UNESCAP)
UNESCAP Regional Trade Agreement Text Analyzer & Legal TINA
Green Trade Lab #27 -- 8 March 15:00 CET with Claudia Contreras and Ludovic Arnaud (UNCTAD)
UNCTAD’s work on Trade and Environment
Green Trade Lab #26 -- 29 February 2024 15:00 CET with Kennedy Mbeva (Cambridge University)
Towards a Green Trade and Investment Strategy for Africa
2023
Green Trade Lab #25 -- 14 December 2023 15:00 CET with Marco Franzoi (SEI - York University)
Fish futures: the governance of trade-based consumption and mechanisms for promoting net biodiversity gain
Green Trade Lab #24 -- 16 November 2023 15:00 CET with Rishikesh Ram Bhandary (Boston University)
Trade and Environment from the Perspective of the Global Development Center
Green Trade Lab #23 -- 20 October 2023 15:00 CET with Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar (FGV)
Assessing the trade effects of government-backed certifications: The case of the Bonsucro-RED certification in Brazil
Green Trade Lab #22 -- 27 September 2023 15:00 CET with Emilie Kerstens (E3G)
Where Climate Change, National Security, and International Trade Meet: The Application of GATT Article XXI(b)(iii) to Climate Change Measures.
Green Trade Lab #21 -- 21 August 2023 15:00 CET with Carolyn Fischer (World Bank)
The World Bank's work on Trade & Climate
Green Trade Lab #20 -- 6 July 2023 15:00 CET with Elena Cima (Unversite de Geneva)
From Exception to Promotion: Re-Thinking the Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Law
Green Trade Workshop II -- 15 June 2023 Early Career Researcher Workshop
The Greening of Trade in a Geo-Economic Context? Effectiveness, Legitimacy, and Justice in the Trade-Environment-Nexus
Green Trade Lab #19 -- 19 April 2023 15:00 CET with Emilie Stockeld (Stockholm Environment Institute - University of York)
Cross-border climate change impacts in the Brazil-Europe soy supply chain
Green Trade Lab #18 -- 31 March 2023 15:00 CET with Tancrède Voituriez (CIRAD, IDDRI-Sciences Po)
The Need for More Hybrid Trade and Environment Agreements
Green Trade Lab #17 -- 17 February 2023 14:30 CET with Sébastien Noel (University of Eastern Finland)
Achieving Greenhouse Gas Emissions through the Utilization of Hydrogen: Case Study of the EU Renewable Energy Directive
Green Trade Lab #16 -- 26 Jan 2023 15:00 CET with Katharine Vincent (Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, University of the Witwatersrand)
Addressing Power Imbalances in Co-production
2022
Green Trade Lab #15 -- December 2022 with Charlotte Janssens (KU Leuven)
International food trade as an adaptation mechanism to climate change?
Green Trade Lab #14 -- November 2022 with Elke Verhaeghe (Ghent University & UNUCRIS)
Transformations in the EU anti-deforestation policies: The more things change the more they stay the same
Green Trade Lab #13 -- October 2022 with Defne Gönenç (Yasar University)
The global economic system and access and allocation in earth system governance
Green Trade Lab #12 -- September 2022 with Nicolas Roux (BOKU Vienna)
Sufficiency and offshoring: the missing elephants in the EU trade and biodiversity agenda?
Green Trade Lab #11 -- August 2022 with Rob Dellink (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
The OECD's perspective on Trade & Environment
Green Trade Lab #10 -- July 2022 with Richard King (Chatham House)
The Resource Trade Earth Database
Green Trade Lab #9 -- June 2022: Fernando Martin Espejo (KU Leuven)
The Global Trade Alert & Environmental Data
Green Trade Workshop I -- May 2022: PhD-Workshop
The Greening of Global Trade? Policy Instruments in the Intersection of Trade and Environment
Green Trade Lab #8 -- March 2022: Sajal Mathur (World Trade Organization)
The WTO's Environmental Database
Green Trade Lab #7 -- February 2022: Janina Grabs (ESADE Business School)
Green Trade Lab #6 -- January 2022: Pierre Leturcq & Eline Blot (Institute for European Environmental Policy)
2021
Green Trade Lab #5 -- November 2021: Ginelle Greene-Dewasmes (York University)
Green Trade Lab #4 -- October 2021: Matthieu Foulon (York University)
Green Trade Lab #3 -- June 2021: Noemie Laurens (Universite Laval)
Green Trade Lab #2 -- May 2021: Camille Van der Vorst (KU Leuven)
Green Trade Lab #1 -- April 2021: Mathilde Gauquelin (Ghent University & Universite Laval)