Environment

This OECD workshop established a multi-stakeholder dialogue with governments, inter-governmental organisations, the private sector and the civil society, to discuss the interlinkages between international trade and the circular economy, and to explore a mutually supportive trade and circular economy agenda. The workshop was organised by the OECD with financial support from the European Union, Norway and Switzerland.

Documents

• Summary report
  
  

Agenda

Presentations

Session 1: What is the circular economy and why does trade matter?

Speaker:

• Shardul Agrawala (OECD)
  
  

Session 2: What are the inpacts of a circular economy transition on global supply chains and trade?

Speaker:

• Elisa Lanzi (OECD)
  
  

Panellists:

• Marianne Kettunen (Institute of European Environmental Policy - IEEP)
• Laura Platchkov (Federal Office for the Environment - FOEN, Switzerland)
• Jorge Cantallopts (Chilean Commission for Copper - Cochilco)
  
  

Session 3: How should trade in waste, scrap and secondary materials be facilitated and controlled?

Speaker:

• Daniel Montalvo (European Environment Agency)
  
  

Panellists:

• Jane Korinek (OECD)
• Daoming Zhang (Interpol)
• Stephane Arditi (European Environmental Bureau - EEB)
• Keli Yu (China National Resources Recycling Association)
• Adina Adler (Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries - ISRI)
• Lisa Pearlman (Apple)
  
  

Session 4: How does trade relate to goods for refurbishment and remanufacturing, and second-hand products?

Speaker:

• Nabil Nasr (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  
  

Panellists:

• John Disharoon (Caterpillar / American National Standard for Remanufacturing)
• Minna Aila (Konecranes)
• Ross Bartley (Bureau of International Recycling - BIR)
• Patrick Schroeder (Chatham House)
  
  

Session 5: What is the role of standards?

Speakers:

• Shunta Yamaguchi (OECD)
• Roswitha Franz (International Organization for Standardization - ISO) and Catherine Chevauche (ISO / SUEZ)
  
  

Panellists:

• David Fatscher (British Standards Institution - BSI)
• Mercedes Mira Costa (CEN-CENELEC)
• Ruben Dekker (DG Environment, EU)
• Jenny Svärd (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise)
  
  

Session 6: What are the new and emerging opportunities for trade and circular economy?

Speakers:

• Jocelyn Blériot (Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
  
  

Panellists:

• Eva Bartekova (OECD)
• Leanne Kemp (Everledger)
• Peter Wooders (Institute for Sustainable Development - IISD)
• Charlotte Cheynard (eBay)
  
  

Session 7: What is the role for international co-operation?

Panellists:

• Karsten Steinfatt (WTO)
• Carlos Martin-Novella (UNEP)
• Valentina Ferraro (WCO)
• Shardul Agrawala (OECD)
• Julia Nielson (OECD)

Working papers on trade and circular economy

• International trade and the transition to a more resource ffficient and circular economy
• The Consequences of a more resource efficient and circular economy for international trade patterns

OECD work on resource efficiency and circular economy

• Resource efficiency and circular economy (RE-CIRCLE)
• Improving Markets for Recycled Plastics
• Trade, resource efficiency and circular economy

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