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Interview: End of US crude oil export ban – consequences for TTIP and the climate
19-Jan-2016 Bordelex
The EU has been advocating an end of this ban as part of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. The EU wants to be able to import US oil for energy security reasons and set global rules for energy markets.
Global economy moved one step forward, one step back in 2015
14-Jan-2016 Market Watch
The problem of TPP is with the “investment” chapter, which severely constrains environmental, health, and safety regulation, and even financial regulations with significant macroeconomic impacts.
TransCanada, this is what democracy looks like
11-Jan-2016 Huffington Post
Canadian company TransCanada’s announcement that it will sue the American people for $15 billion perfectly illustrates how today’s corporate-empowering trade policies threaten the way democracy is supposed to work.
This NAFTA lawsuit over Keystone XL proves ‘free trade’ deals kill democracy
8-Jan-2016 eNews Park Forest
‘The idea that some trade agreement should force us to overheat the planet’s atmosphere is, quite simply, insane.’
Libre-échange contre climat : la plainte de TransCanada contre l’État fédéral américain confirme les craintes des mouvements citoyens
7-Jan-2016 Collectif Stop Tafta
La cohabitation entre le régime international de commerce et d’investissement actuel et l’ambition prétendue de lutter contre le changement climatique est impossible.
2015: a year in review on trade and the environment
18-Dec-2015 Huffington Post
In 2015, new trade and investment cases, leaks and texts all demonstrated how trade rules present a significant threat to our environment and climate.
Move to renewables jeopardized by EU corporate trade deals
10-Dec-2015 TNI
Proposed special rights for corporations in EU trade agreements threaten to prevent the necessary energy transition to tackle climate change according to a new report.
There is no EU solution to climate change as long as TTIP exists
8-Dec-2015 The Independent
The European Union has been caught trying to undermine any meaningful outcome from the UN climate talks in Paris.
Secret trade talks could weaken climate targets set in Paris, warn campaigners
4-Dec-2015 The Guardian
Rival international negotiations in Geneva could outlaw subsidies for solar or wind power in ‘great climate change swindle’
A dirty deal: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens our climate
3-Dec-2015 Sierra Club
In its more than 6,000 pages of binding rules, the deal fails to even mention the words “climate change”—a clear sign it is not “a 21st-century trade agreement,” as some have claimed.
TTIP vs. climate policy: what is at risk?
2-Dec-2015 Global Development And Environment Institute
TTIP is intended to remove “non-tariff barriers to trade”. But the barriers it is targeting are democratically adopted regulations, preventing or correcting damages that would result from unregulated private markets.
Foreign investor protection and climate action: a new price tag for urgent policies
2-Dec-2015 SSRN
Foreign investor protection provisions in trade and investment agreements tilt the playing field in favor of entrenched incumbents and against urgent action on climate.
The secretive trade agreements that could scupper climate change ​action​
30-Nov-2015 The Guardian
Global trade deals like TTIP and TPP will lead to an increase in greenhouse gases and negate any agreement on climate change
Trade deals could lock in fossil fuel exports to Europe
30-Nov-2015 Rabble
The Natural Resources Defense Council has projected that Europe could be receiving 700,000 barrels of tar sands bitumen a day by 2020.
TTIP talks: EU alleged to have given ExxonMobil access to confidential papers
27-Nov-2015 The Guardian
Documents and emails obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘collusion’ between Brussels and industry over the fossil fuel push in free trade negotiations.
Two thirds of European oil refineries ready for tar sands imports
26-Nov-2015 EurActiv
More than two thirds of European oil refineries are now equipped to process tar sands, research has found, raising fears the EU is ready to welcome a flood of imports of one of the most environmentally devastating fuels in production.
Europe’s leaders must devise a global trading system that puts the poor first
21-Nov-2015 The Guardian
The EU’s professed commitment to sustainable development is not reflected in its proposed text for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Why doesn’t the Trans-Pacific Partnership mention climate change?
17-Nov-2015 Good
While the text of the TPP does address the environment in general ways, it does so with none of the urgency that climate change action demands.
Free trade: the hidden costs to our oceans and climate
17-Nov-2015 Huffington Post
With almost half of our carbon emissions and over 90 percent of our planet’s warming being absorbed by the ocean, the cheap goods on our grocery store shelves might not be such a good deal after all.
3 Ways the TPP Will Hurt the Climate—If We Let It Pass
12-Nov-2015 3 Ways the TPP Will Hurt the Climate
The Trans Pacific Partnership is in climate denial - nowhere in its more than 5,000 pages does it mention climate change.