While trade deals have often come at the expense of stronger domestic climate action, the EU’s new trade agreement with Singapore aims to boost trade and investment in clean-energy technologies and promote green public tendering. This should serve as an environmental benchmark for future agreements – including with the US, despite some American constituencies’ expectations that EU standards could be relaxed in a bilateral trade deal.
贸易协议通常会以牺牲国内气候问题的更大动作为代价，尽管如此，欧盟与新加坡的新贸易协定把目标放在了提振清洁能源技术的贸易和投资以及促进绿色公开竞标上。这应该作为未来协定的环境基准——包括与美国的协定，尽管一些美国选民认为在双边贸易协定中，欧盟标准可以放松。