This year's Public Forum will look at how trade can contribute to post-pandemic economic recovery. The Forum will examine, in particular, how trade rules can be strengthened, and government policies improved to create a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive trading system. The Forum has three subthemes:

This year’s Global Review takes place against the backdrop of overlapping crises. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert a toll on human health and cause turmoil in global trade.  Economies everywhere face inflationary pressures with high food and energy prices hitting poor people hardest – and placing additional pressures on hard-pressed public budgets. These pressures are further exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and food security concerns that it has caused.

Women Business Forum 2022 “Gender-Smart Financing to Unlock Women’s Entrepreneurial Potential in the MENA region”

20-21 July 2022 in hybrid format (Barcelona, Spain)

Within the framework of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Eight Global Review of Aid for Trade, which will take place under the theme “Empowering Connected, Sustainable Trade” from 27 to 29 July 2022, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Germany will host a session to discuss the opportunities for industrial development created by green hydrogen and to address structural elements of national and international energy trade.

This event is an official side event of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.

Nearly 80% of marine plastic pollution originates from land-based activities. In 2019, 130 million metric tons of single-use plastic products were thrown away, of which 35% were burned, 31% buried in sanitary landfills, and 19% dumped directly on land or into the ocean as pollution .