The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point about climate issues and accords. The problem that I have with the suggestion he is making is that if we asked every country to put those terms into every trade deal, we would not end up with the eight volumes and 2,000 pages that we had to go through in the International Trade Committee. Australia and New Zealand have signed up to the Paris climate accords. They have come to agreements in COP26. They have looked at this stuff, and they stand by those treaties, those agreements and those statements. There is not really a requirement to put them into the trade deals, because those countries are already committed to them on an international stage.
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Anthony Mangnall
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 September 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill.
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