Climate change and increasing calls for greater diversity in the workplace have been making headlines daily. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world, including that of international arbitration, has turned to a virtual setting to conduct many of its operations. While this new terrain has resulted in technical obstacles and challenges, it has also created greater opportunity to adopt environmentally-friendly policies and simultaneously “level the playing field” for historically disadvantaged actors in the field of international arbitration, particularly underrepresented women and minorities. In this post, we explore the opportunities and potential pitfalls that longer-term behavioural changes triggered by the pandemic represent for arbitration from a sustainability and diversity perspective.