Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to include provisions relating to climate change, green technology and the protection of the environment in the UK’s trade policy.
The United Kingdom is a world leader on climate change and environment, which are top priorities in our trade programme. We have facilitated significant multilateral progress on issues such as deforestation and the phasing out of coal at COP26, and will continue to put trade and climate change at the top of the agenda in multilateral forums, including the WTO.
In our Free Trade Agreements, we will protect our right to regulate to meet net zero and seek to co-operate on a range of environmental issues including promoting green-tech. We have already agreed such provisions with Australia and New Zealand.