environment
NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support.
The Mercosur agreement damages the environment, climate and small farmers.
Inspiring people fought toxic gold mines, dirty oil drilling and greedy luxury real estate projects. Now, costly investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) lawsuits risk to reverse their community victories.
As disputes over palm oil and nickel head to World Trade Organization, affected residents say they feel trapped.
Indonesia is prepared to walk away from talks on a free trade deal with the European Union over the bloc’s stance on palm oil, while also launching a probe into subsidies on dairy imports from the EU.
An assessment suggests the revised deal would perpetuate NAFTA’s environmental damage.
Small gains for workers, but the environment gets a shoddy deal.
The renegotiated NAFTA fails to meet the baseline standards for environmental and climate protection that the environmental community has consistently called for.
Instead of imagining trade as an end in itself, or as the driver of job creation and production, we should think about trade as a support mechanism for well-defined political goals centered on improving the lives of working people.
It is time that 21st century trade policy reflects 21st century emergencies and answers to the climate crisis.
The House of Representatives (DPR) Commission IV has urged the government to include palm oil in the negotiations on Indonesia - European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement/IEU-CEPA).
The failure to take recent data or events into account risks creating incorrect and biased results.
The EU and UK can reach an agreement on a future trade relationship provided that Britain sticks closely to Europe’s labour and environmental standards, according to France’s trade minister.
Indonesia will continue the ongoing negotiations on economic and trade partnership with the European Union despite a fresh spat following a leaked document about the EU’s plan to exclude biofuels derived from palm oil by 2021.
Global investment governance needs to be redesigned for the 21st century, with people and the planet at the core.
SOMO researchers undertook a research project to identify cases when Indonesian governmental entities took steps to investigate, engage with, convict, or penalize certain palm oil companies accused of harmful or illicit business activity.
Indonesia will continue the ongoing negotiations on a trade partnership with the European Union despite a leaked document about the EU’s plan to exclude biofuels derived from palm oil.
EU Brexit negotiator links free-trade deal with the UK to workers’ rights and environmental protection.
A global rise in investor lawsuits against nation-sates is putting climate protection laws under threat, activists warn.
A new poll shows that the vast majority of Europeans oppose the EU’s trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur.
