Overseas Trade: Brazil

(asked on 3rd July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the effect of the deforestation of the Amazon on Brazil-UK trading relations.


Answered by
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 9th July 2020

HM Government is concerned about deforestation in the Amazon and the impact on the climate and biodiversity.

My Department is clear that trade does not have to come at the expense of the environment and is committed to upholding Britain’s high environmental standards as part of her sovereign trade policy.

HM Government is working with Brazilian counterparts and other interested parties, and has committed £200m through International Climate Finance programmes aimed at tackling deforestation. We will continue to monitor the situation in the Amazon closely and to raise it in our ongoing dialogues with the Government of Brazil.

Reticulating Splines