Global Britain: UK Environmental Leadership through Trade Deals
Environment APPG: Event Briefing | 25 March 2021
Following the transition to a new administration in the United States under the direction of President Biden, the UK acting as host for COP 26, and the recent conclusion of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the global landscape for the establishment of trade and investment relationships sits at a critical juncture. Global Britain is provided the opportunity to forge ahead with trading relationships which leverage climate change provisions found in the TCA as a new model for trade and environment interfaces.
Drawing from an ongoing program of work, CISDL experts Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge and Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Dr Markus W. Gehring, Director of Studies, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge and Lead Counsel for Trade and Investment, CISDL, and Prof Ilaria Espa, Professor of International Economic Law at USI Lugano, Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute and Lead Counsel for Natural Resources, CISDL briefed the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Environment on opportunities to show environmental leadership in forthcoming negotiations.
Leveraging a series of 8 legal briefs published by the CISDL and ECF in 2020-2021, this briefing provides an overview of critical issues at the trade and environment nexus.
