This Online Conference opens the debate on trade impacts on developing countries of changing patterns of production and consumption in developed countries.
Northern consumers purchase goods in whose production southern producers have participated.
The relevant production in southern countries entails environmental costs for which northern consumers should pay, but often may not. Furthermore northern consumers are increasingly concerned about the environmental impacts of goods they purchase, including impacts in southern countries. The draft report forms the background for the conference, and recommendations from the conference will be fed back into the report. There are four conference discussions . The authors of the draft report and case studies will be moderators for the discussions.