Towards a fair and strategic UK trade and climate policy

Posted on November 23, 2022
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You are warmly invited to the launch of the UK Climate and Trade Commission’s first report “Towards a fair and strategic UK trade and climate policy” on 14th December 2022 from 5.30pm - 7.00pm in the House of Commons' Jubilee Room.

The event will be chaired by Angus MacNeil MP (Chair of the International Trade Select Committee) with speakers from the Commission who will also be available for questions and discussion:

Faten Aggad, Senior Adviser, African Climate Foundation

Ruth Bergan, Director, Trade Justice Movement

Rob Davies, former Trade Minister of South Africa

Nick von Westenholz, Director of Trade and Business Strategy, National Farmers Union

Kate Young, Public Affairs Principal, Aldersgate Group

As we reflect on the outcomes of COP27, the event will be an opportunity to hear the findings of the UK Climate and Trade Commission. The Commission was established by Queen Mary University of London and the Trade Justice Movement to develop practical proposals for what the UK government should be doing to ensure that its trade policy supports action on climate change.

Places are limited, so please register using this Eventbrite and bring your ticket if you are coming from outside Parliament.

Members of the UK Climate and Trade Commission are:

Faten Aggad, Senior Adviser, African Climate Foundation

James Bacchus, former US Congressman and Chair of the WTO Appellate Body

Jude Kirton Darling, Deputy General Secretary, Industriall

Rob Davies, former Trade Minister of South Africa

James Harrison, Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick

David Henig, Director UK Trade Policy Project, European Centre for International Political Economy

Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division, UNCTAD

Emily Lydgate, Deputy Director, Trade Policy Observatory

Marley Morris, Associate Director for Migration, Trade and Communities, Institute for Public Policy Research

Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, Green Alliance

Tom Thackray, Programme Director Decarbonisation, Confederation of British Industry

Nick von Westenholz, Director of Trade and Business Strategy, National Farmers Union

Kate Young, Public Affairs Principal, Aldersgate Group

Vicente Paulo Yu, Senior Legal Adviser, Third World Network

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