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Mercosur deal at odds with EU carbon neutrality aim, study claims
21-Jan-2020 The Irish Times
The controversial Mercosur trade deal is incompatible with the EU’s commitment to carbon neutrality and “may undermine global efforts to avert runaway climate change”.
A clause in the US–China trade deal presents a big opportunity for the oilsands
17-Jan-2020 Financial Post
China agreed to buy ’petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude’ and that could include Canadian crude travelling through the US.
With passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress boosts fossil fuel polluters, particularly in Mexico
17-Jan-2020 Inequality.org
NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support.
New study on Mercosur: A bad deal for climate and environment
16-Jan-2020 Anna Cavazzini
The Mercosur agreement damages the environment, climate and small farmers.
Bernie is right: Trade is a climate issue
16-Jan-2020 Gizmodo
Trade deals have been huge drivers of climate change. NAFTA, for instance, incentivized the expansion of industries with high carbon footprints.
Emission intensity of Irish beef vs. Brazilian beef outlined by MEP
19-Dec-2019 AgriLand
The high emission intensity of beef production in the Mercosur countries can reach levels that are more than double the emission intensity of Irish beef.
Beyond repair? The Energy Charter Treaty
16-Dec-2019 FOEE
An obscure investment agreement, the Energy Charter Treaty, threatens to undermine bold climate action to transform Europe’s energy system.
New NAFTA is lost opportunity to reform corporate trade deals
12-Dec-2019 IATP
Deal does not address the farm crisis, but will exacerbate climate crisis and jeopardize health and public safety.
Trump’s NAFTA 2.0: An environmental failure
12-Dec-2019 Sierra Club
An assessment suggests the revised deal would perpetuate NAFTA’s environmental damage.
US banned climate from UK trade talks
11-Dec-2019 The Ecologist
The US has banned any mention of climate change in US-UK trade talks.
Leading environmental groups urge Congress to oppose a pro-polluter NAFTA 2.0
10-Dec-2019 Sierra Club
The renegotiated NAFTA fails to meet the baseline standards for environmental and climate protection that the environmental community has consistently called for.
EU governments under pressure to quit Energy Charter Treaty
10-Dec-2019 Forbes
Climate campaigners are demanding that European Union countries pull out of the treaty unless they can negotiate an end to the pact’s investor-state dispute mechanism.
Open letter on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)
9-Dec-2019 ECT’s Dirty Secrets
We – 278 environmental, climate, consumer, development, and trade related civil society groups, as well as trade unions – believe that the ECT is incompatible with the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement.
EU-Mercosur deal lets agribusiness off the hook and exacerbates climate crisis
3-Dec-2019 IATP
It is time that 21st century trade policy reflects 21st century emergencies and answers to the climate crisis.
Australia to fight Europe on climate demands in free-trade deal
29-Nov-2019 Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change targets are shaping to be a major sticking point in trade negotiations with Europe after France publicly tied Australia’s domestic action on climate change to the proposed FTA.
EU-Mercosur trade deal will intensify the climate crisis from agriculture
28-Nov-2019 GRAIN
The reality is that the EU-Mercosur FTA will cause a serious increase in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Connecting trade and climate chaos
28-Oct-2019 The Ecologist
We must call for an end to the deregulatory ‘free trade’ and tax policies that make practices like re-importation and redundant trade profitable.
Global climate laws threatened by rise in investor-state disputes
21-Oct-2019 Euractiv
A global rise in investor lawsuits against nation-sates is putting climate protection laws under threat, activists warn.
Nord Stream 2 sues EU using ISDS
27-Sep-2019 Forbes
The company building the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea today sued the European Union over new gas rules it says are threatening its investments in the project.
Trade and investment treaties aggravate the climate crisis
19-Sep-2019 Press Enza
The campaign ‘No to trade and investment treaties’ has called on citizens to join the mobilizations planned for next September 27 in the different cities of Spain.