A senior adviser to the EU team negotiating a post-Brexit agreement with the UK has sought to clarify the debate around accepting level playing field provisions on environmental standards, which has emerged as a point of contention between the two sides

The British government has proposed environmental protections in a post-Brexit relationship with the EU that fall well short of the partnership proposed by Brussels, drawing heavily from the controversial EU-Canada trade agreement CETA

The European Commission’s top negotiator in the post-Brexit talks has signalled that the UK would have to uphold a level playing field on environmental standards even in a less ambitious deal than the ‘zero tariff’ and ‘zero quota’ arrangement proposed by the EU

Green groups in London and Brussels have hit out at reports that the UK’s team negotiating a post-Brexit deal with the EU is resisting demands for the Paris Agreement to be included as an 'essential element'

The UK must commit not to undercut EU environmental standards, while tackling climate change and biodiversity loss should be an ‘essential element’ of a post-Brexit trade agreement, the European Parliament’s environment committee said on Monday