TCSD 2025
The first TESS Annual Conference on Trade, Climate, and Sustainable Development (TCSD 2025) brought together leading experts from around the world to discuss, identify, and forge pathways for effective, inclusive international action and cooperation on trade, climate, and sustainable development.
The inaugural edition of the TCSD Conference focused on pathways for cooperation on climate action, resilience, and justice. The panels and sessions covered a range of specific and critical topics for attention at the nexus of trade, climate, and sustainable development.
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Participation
TCSD 2025 brought together, in person, a regionally diverse range of senior experts from research centres, think tanks, and academia, as well as stakeholder organizations, intergovernmental organizations, and government.
Participation in the conference was by invitation only and intended to be an in-person gathering. However, online participation in live-cast public panels was open to all and there were some opportunities for hybrid participation in thematic sessions. TESS supported expert participation from developing countries. The first edition of TCSD brought together a diverse group of 125 international experts—all of whom share the conviction that cooperation on trade is key to tackling global sustainability challenges.
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Format
TCSD 2025 combined a number of live-cast public panels with a series of closed thematic brainstorming sessions and lunchtime dives designed to deepen dialogue and generate practical ideas for concrete outcomes, collaborations, and ways forward.
All of the TCSD 2025 activities, including the panels, thematic sessions, lunchtime dives, and the reception, took place at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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About TESS
The Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs (TESS) works for a global trading system that effectively addresses global environmental crises and advances sustainable development.
To foster inclusive international cooperation and action on trade and sustainability, our activities seek to catalyse inclusive, evidence-based, and solutions-oriented dialogue and policymaking, connect the dots between policy communities, provide thought leadership on priorities and policy options, and inspire governments and stakeholders to take meaningful action. Launched in 2021, TESS is housed at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
