Yale Planetary Solutions Series at the Higher Education Pavilion

Speakers: Kara Lyn Moran, Anna Stemberger, Raysieo Duakin moderated by Peter Boyd (lecturer, YSE)

Speakers: Lily Fillwalk, Violet Low-Beinart, Zaya Delgerjargal, Alex Cherry

Speakers: Sofia John, Rennie Jones, Calla Rosenfeld, Emily Zhang, Anelise Zimmer
Moderator: Peter Boyd

Speakers: Tony Leiserowitz, Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale School of the Environment

Speakers: Anna Dyson, Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design and Professor at the Yale School of the Environment and the Yale School of Architecture, Mae-ling Lokko, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture

This event is available in person only for those who already have access to the Blue Zone at COP28

Speakers: Paul Anastas, Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, Yale School of the Environment, Julie Zimmerman, Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions, Professor of Green Engineering, Assistant Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering


This event is available in person only for those who already have access to the Blue Zone at COP28

As participants in the COP28 discussions grapple with the conclusion of the Global Stocktake that the world community is falling far short of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions required to avoid serious climate change impacts, this session will make the case for restructuring the international trade system as a critical (and under-attended to) point of leverage for moving the global economy onto a sustainable trajectory. It presents the Villars Framework for a Sustainable Trade System, which represents the culmination of a two-year, multistakeholder project to develop a comprehensive, people-centered, climate-aligned trade reform agenda. The session will explore a broad set of proposals for regearing the WTO and other trade institutions to be fit-for-purpose in the 21st-century including: alignment with the global community's commitment to climate change action, a subsidies reform strategy that considers sustainability alongside trade impacts; new emphasis on inclusively established sustainability standards, trade system incentives to promote a circular economy; and changed WTO governance to create a more dynamic and deft institutional structure.

Panel 1: Introducing the Villars Framework for a Sustainable Trade System
•Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor, Yale Law School and Yale School of the Environment
•Chantal Line Carpentier, Head, Trade, Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development, UNCTAD
•Trevor Sutton, Research Director, Remaking Global Trade Project

Speakers: Emma Polinsky, Saskia Braden, Isabelle Ramseyer, Sebastian Duque, Nick McGowan, Cheryl Chen, Rose Hansen, Marco Marsans, Selin Goren, Daniela Macaya, and Peyton Meyer

Speakers: Lorena Miranda Guevara, Fiacro Jimenez Ramirez, Vincent Haller, Nate Warzawski, Bisrantee Wagle

Yale Planetary Solutions Series Presents: Climate Leadership: Perspectives from the Yale Community -- Human Capital Strategies For Africa: Can Green Jobs Tackle Unemployment in Africa?

Speakers:
Ambassador Paul Simons, Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs,
Bilha Ndirangu, Fellow, Emerging Climate Leaders, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs