International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) is an independent think-and-do-tank, engaged in the provision of information, research and analysis, and policy and multistakeholder dialogue, as a not-for-profit organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland. Established in 1996, ICTSD’s mission is to ensure that trade and investment policy and frameworks advance sustainable development in the global economy. Since 1997, ICTSD is the publisher of BRIDGES and a suite of regional periodicals in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese, including BioRes, BRIDGES AFRICA, Puentes, Passerelles, Pontes, мосты Mosti and 桥 Ciao. Since 1996, and since 2003 in a major Trade and Development Symposium format, ICTSD organises coalitions of knowledge organisations working on trade policy and global issues to offer the most comprehensive platform and opportunity for dialogue alongside WTO biannual ministerial conferences. Since Bali in 2013, it also convenes a biannual WTO Business Forum, cosponsored by major business associations including the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC. In 2011, ICTSD launched the E15 Initiative, now jointly implemented with the World Economic Forum, convening 400 of the world's top experts to look into the issues confronting the global economy and the international trade and investment systems. Among its initiatives for policy reform on several fronts, ICTSD formed the SETI Alliance as a public-private consortium to complement its campaign for robust, efficient markets that support massive scale-up of the diffusion and use of clean energy technologies, to address climate change, energy access and poverty, and energy security. It has also formed a consortium with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank to establish the RTA Exchange, a major double platform on knowledge (interactive databases, research and information on a virtual facility) and systematic policy dialogues to review the rapidly changing world of trade and investment agreements and promote coherence in the global trade and investment architecture.

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