trade

Emerging science sheds light on the relationship between virus spread and habitat loss.

The UK government needs a pragmatic and ambitious approach to stamping out the illegal wildlife trade post-Brexit.

UK government admits that secret trade talks are underway with unnamed countries.

National Farmers' Union, RSPB, Greenpeace sign letter to Boris Johnson PM demanding food standards protected as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

Campaigners Global Justice Now challenge UK government to release all post-Brexit trade papers.

The US has banned any mention of climate change in US-UK trade talks.

Liz Truss must release records of US-UK trade talks following drug prices pledge.

We must call for an end to the deregulatory ‘free trade’ and tax policies that make practices like re-importation and redundant trade profitable.

Europe did not light the fires ravaging the Amazon, but it did provide some of the matches.

Trade can have both positive and negative impacts on the environment. MPs are calling for evidence on both for an upcoming inquiry.

The UK’s new trade secretary met last year with climate-sceptic think tanks that are behind Trump’s programme of deregulation and tax cuts.

Coalition argues for laws guaranteeing that products sold in the EU do not cause deforestation and human rights abuses in Brazil.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump are trying to give TTIP a second life in a different form.

British food standards are under threat, campaign leaders warn.

The UK Government and industry players are looking to revitalise domestic mining, placing communities and ecosystems under threat.

Department for International Trade won’t release any of its modelling until after Britain leaves the European Union.

A challenging day for the Department for International Trade and Liam Fox's post-brexit Trade Bill.

A Trans-Pacific Partnership deal would 'threaten food standards and public services'.

The Trade Bill currently passing through parliament could result in Britain doing trade deals which undergo less scrutiny than through the European Union. This is not taking back control, argues SOPHIE HARDEFELDT

New research has found major discrepancies in the reporting of fish stocks. JACK ALEXANDER reports on whether effective conservation attempts can ever be implemented without the ability to accurately track fish species in trade.

The African Wildlife Foundation has uncovered the figures behind the shocking numbers of 'trophy hunters' and the sanctioned trade in exporting dead and living animals out of the continent, reports LAURA BRIGGS

The nature of Britain's trade deals with the United States after Brexit raises serious concerns about the quality of food on supermarket shelves - and the influence of vested interests in the meat industry, reports LAWRENCE CARTER of EnergyDesk, Greenpeace.

Ecuador is the latest country to tear up 'free trade' agreements that have so far cost the country $21 billion in damages awarded to foreign companies by 'corporate courts', and yielded next to nothing in return, writes Nick Dearden. So the outgoing President Correa did the only sensible thing: in one of his final executive acts this month, he scrapped 16 toxic trade and investment treaties.

Mining was imposed on the Salvadoran people as a dream industry to aid development, create jobs and yield taxes to pay for schools and hospitals, write Ricardo Navarro & Sam Cossar-Gilber. But the reality was a nightmare of polluted water, stolen farmland, corporate violence, and murder. After a long campaign, El Salvador has just become the first country to ban all metal mining.