Trade Bill (Second sitting) - 16th June 2020

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Trade Bill (Second sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-06-16/debates/6078A39C-56BB-4BD1-8C41-C93358B99D55/TradeBillSecondsitting

Bill Esterson (Labour)

This is a really important point: the UK Government should be seizing this moment to be a global leader in negotiating trade agreements that accommodate some of these sorts of policy areas, such as animal welfare, environmental impacts and climate change, and being creative and imaginative in how future trade agreements ought to look—not looking backwards and seeing how trade agreements have been done in the past, and merely looking to replicate those.

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