Net Zero Week Webinar: 'Invisible Hands, How Net Zero Plans Are Rewriting Trade Rules'

From clean industrial strategies to carbon border tariffs, climate policies are fast becoming the hidden drivers of global trade. This webinar explores how net zero plans in the UK, South Africa, and beyond are reshaping exports, jobs, and competitiveness. As carbon tariffs bite and clean tech booms, national climate ambition is now a trade imperative — not just an environmental one.

NZT lead John Lang will discuss the findings along with Sam Geall, Associate Fellow, Chatham House (biogs below).

When: 13:00 BST, Tuesday, 8th July 2025

Register to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/webina...

(All registration data will be shared with Net Zero Week).

John Lang, Lead, The Net Zero Tracker

John specialises in analysing and communicating climate science and policy for the Net Zero Tracker and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. A New Zealand-qualified lawyer, he also runs the blog e-nvironmentalist, the consultancy Consult Climate, and Kiwis in Climate. He holds an LLM from UCL and degrees in history and law from Otago.

Sam Geall, Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Sam is a writer on China, climate, and geopolitics. He is Associate Fellow at the Chatham House Environment and Society Centre and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He was formerly CEO at Dialogue Earth and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester, focussed on climate change and the public sphere in contemporary China.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Frances Green, frances.green@eciu.net