Learning Event summary
This Evidensia learning event will provide an insight into the ‘super wicked’ problem of regulating markets for positive environmental outcomes.
It will explore:
- How regulations like the EUDR are designed to drive change in global commodity markets
- How businesses and producer countries may respond.
- How greater international policy alignment could foster coherence and trigger a global ‘race to the top’
- What could prevent unintended consequences, such as producers switching to unregulated forest-risk commodities
About this event
How can market regulation truly reduce global sustainability issues – and what can be done to move from compliance to actual impact? As sustainable trade policies expand, their success will depend not only on enforcement, but also on how producers, traders and other major consumer markets respond. Will we see fragmentation and market segregation – or growing convergence toward shared standards?
This public webinar explores the real-world economic and behavioural dynamics that could enable or constrain environmental regulations, using the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products (EUDR) as a topical example. The EUDR aims to reduce deforestations – a complex ‘super wicked’ problem where markets, politics, and incentives interact in unpredictable ways. Designed to limit the EU’s contribution to global forest loss, the regulation aims to reshape supply chains for forest-risk commodities. But how can implementation be supported to deliver meaningful environmental impact?
Keynote speaker
- Dario Schulz, Researcher, European Forest Institute (EFI)
Dario will draw on his 2026 commentary piece Not an easy ride: Economic research priorities for pro-environmental trade regulation.
He will be joined by a panel sharing perspectives from producer and non-EU consumer countries.
Join us for an engaging and forward-looking discussion on what it will take to move from compliance to real reductions in deforestation.