Key recommendations focus on revising WTO agreements, fostering plurilateral negotiations, and utilizing G20 dialogue to create a sustainable, development-friendly global trade system. The Policy Brief recommends that the G20 discuss proposals to enhance current WTO rules to better address environmental concerns and to use dialogue mechanisms to deal with environment-related trade disputes. Furthermore, the G20 should support ongoing discussions on the better alignment of trade and the environment in the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment as well as in plurilateral fora. Lastly, the Policy Brief recommends that the G20 discuss a reform of the WTO’s Trade Policy Reviews to enhance transparency on the trade-environmental nexus.
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