A trade deal with Trump´s America would shred Britain´s climate ambitions | Stephen Buranyi
(The Guardian Business News)

The US will most likely try to lock in protections for its fossil fuel industry, jeopardising plans to decarbonise the UK by 2050Few things have loomed larger in Brexit imaginary than the stupendous trade deals the UK will get as soon as it frees itself from the thicket of European Union regulation. The government hopes to hash out deals with both the EU and the United States by the end of the year, when the transition period ends and Britain is no longer bound to Europe´s rules. An ambitious goal, but not impossible. President Trump is `bullish` on a UK deal, the American ambassador Woody Johnson recently said, adding that Trump, like the prime minister, wants to `get it done`.The risk with climate is that a trade deal would involve death by a thousand cuts for regulation Continue reading...