DDG Paugam calls for new approaches to promote action on trade and environment

WTO members could consider new approaches towards acting concretely on trade and environment objectives whereas failures in multilateral cooperation could lead to trade fragmentation, Deputy Director-General Jean-Marie Paugam said on 9 September. Speaking at the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs in Geneva, DDG Paugam said the WTO framework can adapt to members’ diversity of preferences for environmental protection objectives. The text of his remarks is below.