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WTO Public Forum 2025
The World Trade Organization Public Forum 2025 will take place on 17 and 18 September under the theme "Enhance, create, and preserve."
About the WTO Public Forum
The Public Forum is the WTO’s largest outreach event, providing a unique platform for interested stakeholders from around the world to discuss the latest developments in global trade and to propose ways of enhancing the multilateral trading system. We stand at a critical moment to reflect on and harness the transformative powers of digital trade. The 2025 Public Forum will explore how digital advancements are redefining standards within the international trading system and enhancing global connectivity, innovation, and cooperation.
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the surge in e-commerce, and advanced trade facilitation methods are spearheading an economic revolution. These developments occur against the backdrop of complex geopolitical dynamics and pressing global challenges.
A modernized, digitised trading system offers the potential to improve living standards, create jobs, and sustain our resources – directly echoing the commitments of the Marrakesh Agreement. Achieving this vision will require a commitment to partnership, innovation and strategic foresight. It is also crucial to incorporate developing- and Least-Developed Countries into the digital economy.
As the WTO marks its 30th anniversary, the Forum is an opportune moment to reflect on the digital transformations shaping our interconnected global economy and to explore the future. Participants will evaluate both the risks and opportunities presented by an evolving set of digital tools, aiming to empower small businesses, widen market access, and preserve a more robust digital trading environment.
Environment @ WTO Public Forum 2025
The environment featured prominently at the 2025 edition of the WTO Public Forum. In addition to the programme below a dedicated space for academic presentations has been created in the EM Gallery. For its detailed programme please visit the Trade Policy Hub and the WCP Research Hub tabs on the WTO website.
17 September 2025
- Ask the Experts: Semiconductors and critical minerals | London School of Economics | 13:30-14:45 CEST | Room Center Stage
- Managing ESG Risks in Global Value Chains digitally | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, International Trade Centre (ITC) | 13:30-14:45 | Room B
- Agriculture and Trade Disruptors | Canola Council of Canada, Canadian Cattle Association | 13:30-14:45 CEST | Room S3
- COP30: an Integrated Vision for Climate Change and Trade | COP30 Incoming Presidency | 15:15-16:30 CEST | Room CR
- Enhance, Create, Preserve Indigenous Trade Leadership | New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade / New Zealand Permanent Mission to the WTO (MFAT), Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the WTO and other international economic organizations in Geneva | 15:15-16:30 CEST | Room W
- The IPPC ePhyto and the Future of Digital Plant Trade | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | 17:00-18:15 CEST | Room B
- The Extractive Backbone of the Digital Economy | Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) | 17:00-18:15 CEST | Room S2
18 September 2025
- Critical Minerals & Digital: Policy Space for Global South | Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ) | 9:00-10:15 CEST | Room W
- Global maritime trade: navigating geopolitical tensions | International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) | 9:00-10:15 CEST | Room E
- Leveraging AgriTech for transformational change & prosperity | Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), FIAN International | 9:00-10:15 CEST | Room B
- Data Secured Farmers-to-market Connection via Digitalisation | World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) | 9:00-10:15 CEST | Room S1
- Tech for Fisheries Data and Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies | WTO Secretariat | 9:00-10:15 CEST | Room S3
- No Farm Left Behind: Trade-Driven Digital Innovation | CropLife International (CLI) | 10:45-12:00 CEST | Room B
- Digitalization in Latin America: Boosting Agricultural Trade | Group of Latin American Delegations to the WTO, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) | 13:30-14:45 CEST | Room D
- Africa, Climate & Multilateralism: A Path to Resilient Trade | Business 20 South Africa (B20), South African Mission to the WTO | 13:30-14:45 CEST | Room S1
- How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks | London School of Economics (LSE) | 13:30-14:45 CEST | Room Library
- From E-Waste to Impact: Building Circular Supply Chains | Permanent Mission of Finland (Finland), Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt (Egypt) | 15:15-16:30 CEST | Room F
- Trade Agendas for Nature, Climate & Sustainable Development | World Wild Fund For Nature (WWF International) | 15:15-16:30 CEST | Room Library
- 20 Years of IISD’s Global Subsidies Initiative | International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) | 17:00-18:15 CEST | Room E