Food & Agriculture
April 30, 2024
By Kristy Goodfellow, Vice President of Trade and Industry Affairs, and Natalie Diez, Trade and Economic Policy Intern
“But even as we increase investment at home and abroad, there’s still an elephant in the room … one that’s producing a lot of emissions … and that is global trade. We have to take a serious look at our international economic systems, including trade — and harness them for climate action. Our current global trading system was built to promote open and competitive markets — which it has done well — but it wasn’t built to curb emissions. In fact, by many measures, global trade is a huge contributor to the climate problem.”
—John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, remarks from the Colombia Global Energy Summit