COP 30 Side Event | The Global Ripple of Green Industrial Policies: Trade, competitiveness, and climate

Background

Climate mitigation and sustainable development require not only cleaner technologies but also coherent trade and industrial policy frameworks that can drive green structural transformation. Around the world, governments are redefining their industrial strategies to promote low-carbon production, green manufacturing, and resilient supply chains. Yet these shifts are unfolding amid rising trade tensions, new green subsidies, and divergent national standards.

While national green industrial policies are essential for climate action, their international spillovers—on competitiveness, trade flows, and global emissions—are becoming increasingly evident. The race to decarbonize industries can create both new opportunities for cooperation and new risks of fragmentation or unequal market access. Ensuring that national measures support a truly global transition, rather than shifting emissions or disadvantaging developing economies, will be key to their long-term success.

About the Event

This event will explore how countries can design trade and industrial policies that both accelerate the climate transition and foster inclusive development. The discussion will unpack practical policy approaches—from building domestic green industries to managing international competitiveness and avoiding new forms of protectionism. It will also examine how international cooperation, finance, and governance reforms can ensure that climate-related industrial policies contribute to shared prosperity rather than deepening divides.

Speakers

• Chantal Line Carpentier, Head, Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch, UN Trade and Development
• Dr. Amir Lebdioui, Director, TIDE (Trade, Industrial Policy and Development) Centre; Fellow, London School of Economics
• Rodrigo Monardes, Head of International Affairs Division, Ministry of Finance, Chile
• Charra Tessfaye Terfassa, Program Manager, Open Society Foundations
• Ieva Baršauskaitė, Lead, Trade and the Green Transition, International Institute for Sustainable Development