The Stockholm conference on "Climate change, trade and standardisation - in a development perspective" is a result of the Swedish Trade Minister´s announcement at the climate conference in Bali in December 2007.

It offers a unique opportunity for the participants and the lecturers to bring their own perspectives on the issue. The design of the conference program, in combination with the selection of participants from a great variety of developing countries, aims to bring a comprehensive approach to questions related to climate change, trade and standardisation. The ambition has been to open up for a dynamic conference with many fruitful discussions on the challenges and opportunities for the developing countries.

The purpose of the Stockholm conference is to build awareness about standardisation as the engine to increase climate-related trade for the developing countries. The ambition of the conference is to introduce more extensive initiatives and activities to develop the capacity within those countries to take advantage of the increasing climate-related trade.

Standardisation is a central key in trade on the world market. A common interest and challenge is therefore to enhance the development countries´ institutional and technical capability of handling the great variety of climate standards, certification and labelling systems.