UK must use its trade policy to tackle climate change | Letters
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As the Trump administration prepares to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement, we believe the UK must use its trade policy to reaffirm and strengthen a globally coordinated response to climate change - one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. As such, we call on the next UK government to:
" Require ratification of the Paris agreement and a commitment to its goal of avoiding more than 1.5 degrees of warming as a precondition for entering into trade and investment agreements with the UK.
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