With IDDRI support to the background paper.
Organised by the OECD, the Round Table on Sustainable Development was established in 1998 to provide an informal setting through which ministers can engage one another and key international business and civil society leaders without prejudice to negotiating positions on cross-cutting issues.
This meeting of the Round Table seeks to turn the spotlight on whether sectoral agreements represent a useful way forward in addressing climate change. But without understanding in some detail the practicalities of negotiating and implementing them, it is hard to know whether they could add value or simply prove to be a distraction. The purpose of the meeting is to shed some light on that question.
