By Muhammad Amaan
A seminar on “Building greener and more Resilient Supply Chains” was held in Geneva as part of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum 2024.
It was co-hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the International Trade Centre (ITC).
The four-day public forum, would feature over 130 sessions with nearly 4,400 participants from government, business, academia, and civil society.
CCPIT Chairman Ren Hongbin said that today’s globalised economy created both opportunities and challenges.
He emphasised the need to embrace openness and inclusiveness while upholding true multilateralism.
He also stressed that building greener and more resilient supply chains was crucial to addressing global challenges.
ITC Deputy Executive Director Dorothy Tembo underscored the ITC’s commitment to collaborating with partners to offer technical assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
It would offer the assistance especially to those in developing countries, to tap into the potential of cross-border e-commerce.
She said the goal was to build greener supply chains and reduce the carbon footprint of e-commerce, thereby contributing more to sustainable development.
In its Digital Economy Report 2024, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) emphasised the urgent need to adopt an environmentally sustainable and inclusive digital strate, said UNCTAD’s head of E-Commerce and Digital Economy.
Torbjorn Frederick stressed that China had issued innovative guidelines promoting the sustainable development of the digital economy.
