A leaked email has revealed how Australia pressured the UK to drop binding commitments to the Paris climate change agreement from the UK-Australian trade deal. Sky News reports that the Morrison Government insisted that “a reference to Paris Agreement temperature goals” be removed from the text of the trade deal. That is in stark contrast from the UK-EU trade deal where temperature commitments are explicitedly laid out and a suspension of the deal is triggered if either side breaches its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement makes countries set goals in order to limit global warming to well below 2C, preferably to 1.5C. Originally published as Morrison Government pushed for removal of Paris Agreement targets in UK free trade deal

Source: The Herald September 08, 2021 12:45 UTC