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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.
Details of Trans-Pacific Partnership text finally released
5-Nov-2015 Sidney Morning Herald
The final text of a huge 12-country trade agreement has confirmed the "worst nightmares" of environmental groups, with no mention of climate change in its lone environment chapter and weak enforcement mechanisms
Joseph Stiglitz: under TPP, polluters could sue U.S. for setting carbon emissions limits
30-Oct-2015 Democracy Now
The basic point is that TPP is a trade agreement that has all kinds of provisions intended to restrict regulations.
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor
26-Oct-2015 GRAIN
New trade deals like CETA, TPP and TTIP will likely increase the production, trade and consumption of industrial food, with important implications in terms of climate change.
TTIP: EU negotiators appear to break environmental pledge in leaked draft
24-Oct-2015 The Guardian
As Miami talks wind up, environmental safeguards are ‘virtually non-existent’ in trade deal negotiating text for sustainable development, lawyers say
Dirty hands on dirty deals
23-Oct-2015 CEO
What do the UN climate talks in Paris this December, “COP21”, and the ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, have in common?
EU Parliament adopts robust mechanism needed for Paris climate talks. Are European national leaders ready to act?
19-Oct-2015 EurActiv
EU Parliament adopts robust mechanism needed for Paris climate talks. Are European national leaders ready to act?
Fiji will not change its stance
15-Oct-2015 Fiji Sun
Agreement must be development-centered
TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals
13-Oct-2015 AITEC and CEO
A new briefing by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015 CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Environmentalists: the trans-Pacific trade agreement is a disaster for climate change
7-Oct-2015 Think Progress
Opponents of the TPP say its a sweetheart deal for fossil fuel companies.
Lack of local land rights harms fight against poverty, climate change - researchers
5-Oct-2015 Trust
Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change.
NAFTA and FIPA could derail the COP21 Paris climate change agreement, report claims
25-Sep-2015 National Observer
Ahead of the Paris climate change talks, a new report argues that international trade deal contracts must be amended to ward off lawsuits that could potentially scuttle any agreements reached on climate change.
PH climate change official tells APEC: No trade without addressing disaster risk issues
23-Sep-2015 InterAksyon.com
There can be no trade agreement without addressing disaster risk and climate change issues in the Asia-Pacific region, the Philippine government says.
Paris Climate Summit: New report protects climate legislation from trade deals
22-Sep-2015 The Council of Canadians
A new report formulates an innovative trade deal exemption clause that allows countries to pursue environmental and climate change policy free from the chilling effects resulting from investor-state dispute settlement provisions in trade agreements.
MOVIE: System change not climate change
18-Sep-2015 Norges Sosiale Forum NSF
The greatest challenges of our time is to end the unjust distribution in the world and to fight climate change.
Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership an environmental pollution pass for corporations?
4-Sep-2015 Huffington Post
Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement are skeptical saying the agreement will be harmful to the environment and economically benefits large corporations.