As part of the Duke Program on Global Policy and Governance, Jess McDonald is working with the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development’s (ICTSD) BioRes Publications Team in Geneva, Switzerland. She will be analyzing issues related to trade and sustainable development, with a specific focus on multilateral environmental negotiations. This is an exciting summer to be following these developments, and her work will be related to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn this June, the Third International Conference on Financing and Development being held in Ethiopia in July, and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals Summit this September.