India, Nov. 16 -- The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change formally launched an integrated forum on Climate Change and Trade (IFCCT) on November 15 to create a permanent, politically supported space where countries can address the increasingly contentious intersection between trade policies and climate action.

This comes as countries and experts acknowledge that the intersection between trade and climate policy has become too consequential-and too contentious-to leave unmanaged.

Framed by the COP30 Presidency as a central pillar of its Action Agenda, the Forum aims to provide a politically supported but non-negotiating space where governments can openly discuss how trade mea...