United Nations Environment Programme
Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics
Economics and Trade Branch

Economics and Trade

United Nations Environment Programme's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, the Economics and Trade Branch (UNEP-ETB) seeks to conserve the environment, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable development by enhancing the capacity of governments, businesses, and civil society to integrate environmental considerations into economic, trade, and financial policies and practices in accordance with the partnership and integrated policy-making approaches of sustainable development.

In pursuing its mission, UNEP-ETB focuses on four complementary programme areas:
  • Promoting integrated policy design and implementation emphasising sound environmental management, sustainable trade promotion, and poverty reduction;

  • Strengthening environmental management and implementation of multilateral environmental agreements through economic instruments and subsidy reform;

  • Promoting mutually supportive trade and environment policies; and

  • Enhancing the role of the financial sector in sustainable development.