Geneva

Expert meeting organized by UNCTAD, with the supported of the United Nations Forum on Sustainable Standards (UNFSS) and the German Development Institute (DIE), on 27 September 2017, at Room XXV, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) may be catalytic to achieve win-win-win outcomes for trade-induced economic growth, environmental sustainability and social development. However, small producers and businesses in developing countries and theirs government are not always technically, financially or institutionally capable to reap the developmental benefits arising out