Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts in (a) Costa Rica, (b) Fiji, (c) Iceland, (d) New Zealand, (e) Norway and (f) Switzerland on the initiative towards an Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability.

The Secretary of State for International Trade has previously discussed the United Kingdom’s interest in joining the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS) with her counterpart in New Zealand. While these have been high level discussions, officials have been engaging with all ACCTS member states, particularly New Zealand, on each area of the agreement – environmental goods and services liberalisation, fossil fuel subsidies, and ecolabelling – as we consider whether the United Kingdom should seek to join the negotiations.