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The EU-Mercosur joint instrument fails to pass the EU’s own sustainability tests
6-Apr-2023 E3G
A recent leak of the European Commission’s additional instrument of the EU-Mercosur trade deal fails to meet the criteria outlined in the Commission’s own Trade and Sustainable Development review.
This CPTPP trade deal will hurt the climate, and for what?
3-Apr-2023 The Sunday Times
Britain is waving through an agreement with minimal benefit and greater risks, from palm oil to emissions.
Breaking: Civil society denounce leaked joint instrument on EU-Mercosur deal as blatant greenwashing
23-Mar-2023 Friends of the Earth Europe
Documents leaked reveal that the EU-Mercosur deal’s proposed annex, supposedly intended to safeguard the environment, climate and human rights, does nothing to achieve this.
EU-Mercosur FTA: Joint instrument (EU proposal, Feb 2023)
23-Mar-2023 Friends of the Earth Europe
As leaked by Friends of the Earth Europe, Ecologistas en Acción, European Coordination Via Campesina, Collectif national Stop CETA-Mercosur, Aitec, PowerShift e.V. Germany, Handel Anders.
Position paper on pure food and genetic modification
21-Mar-2023 Ngā Toki Whakarururanga
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga believes IPEF provisions would cut across the rights, interests, duties and responsibilities of Indigenous Peoples throughout the region.
IPEF is only to save US corporations from crisis while continue to eliminate people’s rights
15-Mar-2023 Solidaritas Perempuan
Indonesian Civil Society held a protest today in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta to express its rejection of the IPEF. In the midst of the global economic crisis, the US is trying to rebuild its national industrialisation with a less open free trade agreement and push for policy harmonisation based on US standards.
Ecuador-Canada Free Trade Agreement: a new attack on communities, Indigenous peoples, and the environment
2-Mar-2023 Mining Watch
A Free Trade Agreement between Ecuador and Canada is not in the interests of Indigenous peoples, territories or the environment. The FTA will only be another instrument of corporate power, wielded by the national elites to deepen the rationale for devastation.
Mercosur files
1-Mar-2023 Friends of the Earth Europe
Despite the ongoing devastation, and with the Amazon likely at an irreversible environmental tipping point, the European Union continues to push for a free trade agreement with Mercosur which would increase the pressure on the region.
There are many ways to rebuild Brazil: EU-Mercosur trade deal is not one of them
24-Feb-2023 Euractiv
It is time to fundamentally change trade relations to put the environment, climate and human rights at the centre and dismantle the legacy of neo-colonial economics.
France awaits climate progress in EU-Mercosur talks -agriculture minister
20-Feb-2023 Reuters
France is waiting to see if Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s return to power in Brazil will allow progress on climate and deforestation issues that remain red lines for Paris in any EU-Mercosur trade deal, its agriculture minister said.
CCAJAR calls for the elimination of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in “free trade” agreements
15-Feb-2023 Peace Brigades International - Canada
Colombia is now facing thirteen investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) claims in process and eight more in initial stages that total an estimated USD $2 billion.
Manifesto for an ecosocial energy transition from the Peoples of the South
13-Feb-2023 Foreign Policy in Focus
A new manifesto critiques the "clean energy" transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.
Without public participation, the Indonesia-EU CEPA negotiations potentially create a multidimensional crisis in Indonesia
9-Feb-2023 Indonesia for Global Justice
The Indonesian CSOs assesses that the I-EU CEPA Agreement will deepen the crisis of democracy, climate and social justice for all Indonesian people. For this reason, the MKE Coalition urges the Government of Indonesia to not submitting the agreement before they can guarantee legal certainty for the fulfillment of democratic rights, guarantees for the protection of human rights, social justice, and sustainable environment.
Sunak ‘risks full-scale trade war’ with Brussels by scrapping EU laws
7-Feb-2023 The Guardian
The UK’s plan to lower standards in areas such as environmental protection and workers’ rights could breach “level playing field” provisions that were at the heart of the post-Brexit trade and cooperation agreement, say EU politicians.
Not just about trade
3-Feb-2023 FERN
The FTA aims to increase trade in products known for their harmful impact on people and forests, which is incompatible with the transition to a just and green economy.
French MEPs concerned over EU-Mercosur deal amid regional push
3-Feb-2023 Euractiv
The EU-Mercosur deal is edging closer to implementation, with the region’s leaders, including Brazil’s freshly elected President Lula, pushing for swift ratification. However, French EU lawmakers reiterated concerns over environmental standards.
Climate, labour remain knotty issues in EU FTA
24-Jan-2023 Hindustan Times
Several knotty issues related to labour, environment and sustainability that have emerged in negotiations between India and the European Union on a free trade agreement will require political guidance for further progress
Polluter doesn’t pay: The Rockhopper v Italy award
23-Jan-2023 EJIL: Talk!
The way in which the reasoning of the Rockhopper award expels any environmental considerations has the effect of making climate change interventions considerably more costly
EU and Angola conclude Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement
10-Jan-2023 IISD
In November 2022, the EU and Angola concluded a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (SIFA)—the first EU agreement of this kind.
What are the green promises that would facilitate the EU agreement with Mercosur?
30-Nov-2022 Pledge Times
The executive arm of the European Union is set to propose a series of environmental and climate commitments in an attempt to Facilitate the approval of a historic trade agreement with four South American countries.