Government hails Trans-Pacific trade deal, but green groups raise alarm over deforestation risks

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New Trans-Pacific partnership will see tariffs cut on a range of exports fuelling fears deal could exacerbate palm oil-related deforestation

Environmental campaigners have today criticised the UK's new Trans-Pacific trade deal, warning it could make a "mockery" out of the UK's efforts to curb deforestation and compromise the UK's relatively...

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