India’s commerce minister has said that trade policy has no role in fighting climate change, dealing a blow to hopes of tackling global warming through trade deals.
Piyush Goyal told the Financial Times that trade and the environment “are two separate issues” and the rich world’s attempts to embed sustainability into agreements were “biased”.
“Trade has nothing to do with that,” he said in an interview at the World Trade Organization’s biennial conference, where governments are discussing how to green trade flows and abolish subsidies for overfishing.
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