Green Economy Trade Strategies Training Course

Participants can locate major international rules and commitments affecting green trade decisions.

• Paris Agreement trade implications for nationally determined contribution implementation
• Sustainable Development Goals relevant to trade, industry and consumption
• UNCTAD and OECD approaches to green trade policy assessment
• Regional trade agreements containing environment, energy and sustainable-development chapters
• Multilateral development bank roles in climate-related trade finance
• Policy coherence between trade ministries, environment agencies and investment authorities

Participants can assess environmental trade measures against core WTO disciplines.

• GATT Articles I, III and XI applied to environmental measures
• Article XX environmental exceptions and necessity-test reasoning
• Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement disciplines for product regulations
• Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement relevance for sustainable agricultural exports
• WTO Subsidies Agreement treatment of financial support and specificity
• Dispute settlement reasoning from selected environment and trade cases

Participants can use trade and market data to identify priority green economy opportunities.

• HS nomenclature structure for identifying products in green markets
• UN Comtrade data extraction by reporter, partner, product and year
• Revealed comparative advantage calculations for environmental goods exports
• Market concentration measured through destination shares and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
• Import growth, unit values and tariff rates as screening indicators
• Data-quality checks for mirror statistics, re-exports and missing values

Participants can distinguish commercial opportunities in environmental goods and services trade.

• Environmental goods lists and classification limitations under HS codes
• Renewable-energy equipment markets, component dependencies and installation services
• Water, waste and pollution-control services under services trade classifications
• Professional services supporting energy efficiency, certification and environmental monitoring
• Public and private buyer requirements for environmental performance claims
• Market-entry implications of equipment standards, maintenance and after-sales support

Participants can identify and prioritise non-tariff measures affecting green trade transactions.

• UNCTAD NTM classification for technical, sanitary and quantity measures
• Conformity assessment routes: testing, inspection, certification and supplier declarations
• Mandatory ecolabels, energy labels and minimum performance standards
• Product registration requirements, authorised representatives and importer responsibilities
• Trade restrictiveness assessed through compliance cost, delay and uncertainty
• NTM risk register linking requirements, owners, evidence and deadlines

Participants can estimate exposure to carbon border measures and plan a compliance response.

• Carbon border adjustment mechanisms and their intended competitiveness rationale
• Product-scope screening using HS codes and destination-market regulations
• Embedded emissions concepts: direct emissions, electricity and precursor materials
• EU CBAM reporting data, declarant roles and supplier information requests
• Carbon-price adjustments, free allocations and double-counting considerations
• Exposure matrix combining export value, emissions intensity and compliance maturity

Participants can specify credible carbon and environmental evidence for traded products.

• ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 life-cycle assessment principles
• Product carbon footprint boundaries: cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave
• Primary and secondary data selection for emissions calculations
• Allocation methods for co-products, recycled content and shared processes
• Verification trails for supplier data, calculations and environmental claims
• Avoiding unsupported claims under green marketing and consumer-protection rules

Participants can assess origin requirements and sourcing choices for green products.

• Preferential and non-preferential rules of origin compared
• Substantial transformation tests using tariff shift and value-added rules
• Bills of materials mapped to originating and non-originating inputs
• Cumulation provisions under regional trade agreements and supplier networks
• Origin documentation, supplier declarations and customs audit records
• Sourcing scenarios balancing tariff preference, emissions and supply resilience

Participants can connect green trade projects with appropriate finance and investment criteria.

• Trade finance instruments for equipment imports and export working capital
• Green loan principles and use-of-proceeds requirements for trade investments
• Climate-risk factors in lender due diligence and credit assessment
• Export credit agencies, political-risk cover and environmental screening
• Blended finance structures for clean infrastructure and market entry
• Investment cases combining cash flows, emissions reductions and trade benefits

Participants can evaluate green industrial policy instruments and associated trade risks.

• Industrial policy rationales: learning effects, coordination failures and externalities
• Subsidy design through grants, tax credits, loans and guarantees
• WTO subsidy categories, specificity tests and adverse-effect concerns
• Local-content requirements and national-treatment risk in clean-energy programmes
• Competitive neutrality considerations for state-owned enterprises and public finance
• Policy scorecard balancing economic additionality, emissions and trade compliance

Participants can incorporate environmental criteria into procurement without unnecessary trade restrictions.

• Government Procurement Agreement principles: transparency, non-discrimination and competition
• Environmental technical specifications linked to verifiable product performance
• Life-cycle costing for energy, maintenance, disposal and carbon costs
• Award criteria separating supplier capability from product environmental attributes
• Supplier qualification evidence, ecolabel equivalence and audit rights
• Tender documentation reducing discrimination and unsupported environmental claims

Participants can assess trade opportunities and controls for circular economy materials.

• Circular economy trade flows: repair, reuse, remanufacture and recycling
• Basel Convention controls on hazardous waste movements and prior consent
• Waste versus secondary raw material classification criteria
• Quality specifications for recycled metals, plastics and recovered fibres
• Extended producer responsibility effects on cross-border material flows
• Traceability records supporting recycled-content and chain-of-custody claims

Participants can evaluate sustainability requirements affecting agricultural and food exports.

• Deforestation-free supply-chain requirements and geolocation evidence
• Good Agricultural Practices, residue controls and traceability systems
• Voluntary sustainability standards and buyer code-of-conduct requirements
• Certification costs, smallholder inclusion and aggregation-model choices
• Climate-smart agriculture claims supported by farm-level records
• Export readiness review for sustainable commodities and processed foods

Participants can identify tradable green services and digital enablers of environmental compliance.

• Mode 1 through Mode 4 supply of environmental services
• Cross-border engineering, consulting and environmental-monitoring service delivery
• Digital product passports supporting traceability and regulatory information exchange
• Electronic certificates, customs single windows and paperless trade systems
• Data governance for supplier emissions, product attributes and audit records
• Services export strategy combining capability, licensing and local partnerships

Participants can prepare evidence-based positions for green trade consultations and negotiations.

• Stakeholder mapping for exporters, regulators, buyers, communities and investors
• Interest-based negotiation positions on climate-related trade measures
• Consultation briefs structured around evidence, impacts and recommended actions
• Coalition building among industry associations, ministries and technical agencies
• Distributional analysis of costs, employment effects and small-business impacts
• Negotiation mandates, red lines and acceptable implementation compromises

Participants can create a structured market-entry strategy for a green product or service.

• Market-selection criteria covering demand, access, competition and environmental regulation
• Weighted scoring model for comparing target export destinations
• Customer segmentation by procurement criteria, price sensitivity and certification needs
• Value proposition design linking performance, cost savings and environmental evidence
• Route-to-market choices: distributors, agents, direct sales and partnerships
• Export action plan with milestones, owners, budget and decision gates

Participants can establish governance, controls and indicators for green trade strategy delivery.

• RACI matrix for trade, sustainability, finance, legal and operations responsibilities
• Implementation risk register covering regulation, suppliers, logistics and financing
• Key performance indicators for exports, compliance, emissions and supplier readiness
• Dashboard design using leading indicators and outcome measures
• Review cadence for regulatory changes, market signals and corrective actions
• Board reporting structure for green trade opportunities and material risks

Participants can integrate market, policy and operational analysis into a decision-ready strategy.

• Problem framing for a product, service, sector or national trade objective
• Evidence triangulation across trade data, regulation, customer demand and emissions
• Scenario analysis for policy changes, carbon costs and supply disruptions
• Strategic options assessed through feasibility, impact, cost and implementation risk
• Implementation sequencing from immediate compliance actions to market-development initiatives
• Peer review criteria for strategic logic, evidence quality and accountability

Participants can build, review and present a complete green economy trade strategy for a selected product, market or policy challenge.

• Define the commercial or policy problem using measurable trade objectives
• Present market prioritisation, tariff analysis and non-tariff measure findings
• Quantify carbon border, product evidence and supply-chain compliance exposure
• Recommend trade-policy, market-entry, sourcing and finance actions
• Assign implementation responsibilities, milestones, indicators and governance arrangements
• Defend assumptions and recommendations through structured stakeholder review