Critics say former Australian PM’s membership of Global Warming Policy Foundation board could affect trade deals
does not meet its aims as a charity and is a lobbying organisation.
Campaigners have called for Abbott to be sacked as a trade adviser. Mel Evans, of Greenpeace UK, said: “Talking tough on climate action while filling your Board of Trade with people like Abbott is a dismal signal to the world about Britain’s climate leadership.is free to continue his journey into unreality, but the government shouldn’t allow us to be dragged along behind him.”
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