We want to boost the UK’s industries of the future.

We advocate for policies that prevent high-carbon imports undercutting fledgling low-carbon industries.

Net zero is an important long-term economic opportunity for the UK.

We will miss that opportunity if low-carbon industries can’t thrive because they are undercut by high-carbon imports.

CleanTrade is a non-profit founded to make the case for UK politicians to act on high-carbon imports in order to boost the investment case for low-carbon industries today, make the UK’s supply chains more resilient to fossil fuel price shocks, and send a clear market signal through supply chains around the world to decarbonise.

In 2022 and 2023, we produced research and were covered in the press making the case for the UK government to boost low-carbon industry by introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). In December 2023, the then-Government committed to introduce a CBAM in 2027, a move followed by the new Government, the Labour Party, which in June 2024 announced its support for a CBAM in its election manifesto.