UK-India trade deal will hurt climate, environment and poor, campaigners warn

The UK's planned trade deal with India will harm the climate, the environment and the poor and must be redesigned from scratch, say campaigners from both countries.
Negotiations - aiming for a deal by October - are also 'undemocratic' because civil society groups and trade unions are largely excluded, says hard-hitting statement.
Protest accuses government of downgrading international agreements on poverty and climate emergency , echoing criticism of the UK's trade deal with Australia.
The 'strategic approach' sets out 'the priority of increasing trade at all costs', while neglecting "businesses communities, livelihood security and access to public services,” she said.
“We are particularly concerned that these negative impacts are borne disproportionately by women and 'other already marginalized groups,' reads the statement, signed by 10 organisations.
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It's the toughest challenge for the government's post-Brexit agenda to secure so many peace deals free trade agreement (FTA) as possible, as a price for leaving the EU.
Boris Johnson has set a deadline for his successor to get the bulk of the India deal through the Hindu festival Diwali at the end of October, after making progress during his trip to the country in April.< /p>
After these talks, he was accused of breaking a promise to do everything possible to ensure that "Putin fails" in Ukraine, admitting that he did not try to persuade India to abandon its neutral position towards Russia.

Unlike the meager economic gains of the agreements with the Australia and New Zealand, the Trade experts believe there will be benefit in striking a deal with the central economic subcontinent's EC.
The statement, signed by the Trade Justice Movement and Traidcraft Exchange among others, acknowledges that "the trade has the potential to bring benefits to both countries".
But he attacks the UK's failure to define how the deal "will align with its commitments under the objectives of development, the Paris climate agreement and other international agreements".
"Its current approach to trade does not properly align with fundamental human rights and work, and our countries’ shared commitment to addressing the climate crisis,” it read.
In both countries, civil society groups have received “very limited access to information, or opportunity to contribute to negotiations, particularly in relation to business groups".
"There is no process of parliamentary ratification in India and, in the UK, parliamentarians are being denied a guaranteed and meaningful vote,” the s...

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UK-India trade deal will hurt climate, environment and poor, campaigners warn

The UK's planned trade deal with India will harm the climate, the environment and the poor and must be redesigned from scratch, say campaigners from both countries.

Negotiations - aiming for a deal by October - are also 'undemocratic' because civil society groups and trade unions are largely excluded, says hard-hitting statement.

Protest accuses government of downgrading international agreements on poverty and climate emergency , echoing criticism of the UK's trade deal with Australia.

The 'strategic approach' sets out 'the priority of increasing trade at all costs', while neglecting "businesses communities, livelihood security and access to public services,” she said.

“We are particularly concerned that these negative impacts are borne disproportionately by women and 'other already marginalized groups,' reads the statement, signed by 10 organisations.

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Boris Johnson has set a deadline for his successor to get the bulk of the India deal through the Hindu festival Diwali at the end of October, after making progress during his trip to the country in April.< /p>

After these talks, he was accused of breaking a promise to do everything possible to ensure that "Putin fails" in Ukraine, admitting that he did not try to persuade India to abandon its neutral position towards Russia.

Unlike the meager economic gains of the agreements with the Australia and New Zealand, the Trade experts believe there will be benefit in striking a deal with the central economic subcontinent's EC.

The statement, signed by the Trade Justice Movement and Traidcraft Exchange among others, acknowledges that "the trade has the potential to bring benefits to both countries".

But he attacks the UK's failure to define how the deal "will align with its commitments under the objectives of development, the Paris climate agreement and other international agreements".

"Its current approach to trade does not properly align with fundamental human rights and work, and our countries’ shared commitment to addressing the climate crisis,” it read.

In both countries, civil society groups have received “very limited access to information, or opportunity to contribute to negotiations, particularly in relation to business groups".

"There is no process of parliamentary ratification in India and, in the UK, parliamentarians are being denied a guaranteed and meaningful vote,” the s...