Trade and Sustainability Review

October 2024, A Focus on Digital Trade

This edition of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review presents five distinct perspectives on the global governance landscape of digital trade. The authors examine how stakeholders can balance economic growth with sustainability as well as evaluate existing international trade law frameworks. They also discuss both the potential and challenges in creating a level playing field that enables all participants to benefit from e-commerce.

Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2024

This edition of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review highlights seven critical topics of trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization's upcoming Thirteenth Ministerial Conference (MC13). The authors delve into e-commerce, environment, development, fisheries subsidies, WTO reform, investment facilitation, and food security to prepare us all for the upcoming negotiations.

Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2023

This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review delves into various trade topics, including the progress of Africa's garment industry in achieving circular economy goals, the role of trade in tackling the biodiversity crisis, and the present status of the WTO's dispute settlement system.

Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2023

This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review, dives into the impact of AI, trade as both a cause and solution to climate change, the economic trends of agricultural fertilizers and how strategies to foster cooperation between trade and sustainable agriculture.

Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2023

This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review dives into topics such as free trade agreements, industrial policy, and the new WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement.

Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2022

This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review discusses a range of issues relating to the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, and key issues at the intersection of trade policy and the environment.

Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2022

This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review explores topical issues in trade policy ahead of the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference—including intellectual property rights, fisheries subsidies, and trade and environment initiatives at the WTO.

Volume, 2, Issue 1, March 2022

This issue of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review features analysis on topics ranging from efforts to enhance inclusivity in trade policy to updates on key environmental initiatives taking place at the WTO and in Europe.