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Clean up myths about the Energy Charter Treaty

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Clean up myths about the Energy Charter Treaty

From Fabian Flues / 15.12.2020 Comments Disabled

This week, the member states of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) will hold their annual conference and evaluate the ongoing attempts to reform the controversial agreement. Amid growing concern that the ECT [...]

Busting myths around the Energy Charter Treaty

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Busting myths around the Energy Charter Treaty

From Fabian Flues / 15.12.2020 Comments Disabled

A guide for concerned citizens, activists, journalists and policy makers The Energy Charter Treaty, an investment agreement for the energy sector, has recently been in the spotlight. No other treaty [...]

Toxic business – with the EU-Mercosur agreement

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Toxic business – with the EU-Mercosur agreement

From Bettina Müller / 13.11.2020 Comments Disabled

More pesticides, less rainforest and more sick people – these are the imminent consequences of the EU's trade agreement with the four Mercosur countries: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. With the agreement [...]

Highly dangerous pesticides for South America – the EU-Mercosur Agreement

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Highly dangerous pesticides for South America – the EU-Mercosur Agreement

From Bettina Müller / 06.11.2020 Comments Disabled

https://youtu.be/-NnmVJvPdJo One of the consequences of the controversial EU-Mercosur agreement would be the increase in exports of highly dangerous pesticides from the EU to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay - pesticides that are partly [...]

Travel guide: EU Mercosur: Ahead of the (climate) crisis

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Travel guide: EU Mercosur: Ahead of the (climate) crisis

From Bettina Müller / 29.10.2020 Comments Disabled

The travel guide "EU-Mercosur: Forward into the (climate) crisis" leads to the most popular destinations of European products, destroying industries in Mercosur and further heating the climate. Come with us on [...]

Accelerators - The EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

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Accelerators - The EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

From Tine Laufer / 15.09.2020 Comments Disabled

Das geplante Handelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den Mercosur-Staaten Lateinamerikas wird die Vernichtung des Amazonas-Regenwaldes beschleunigen. Viehzucht ist schon heute einer der größten Treiber von Brandrodung und Abholzung im Amazonas. […]

The Energy Charter Treaty – Climate action in the dock

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The Energy Charter Treaty – Climate action in the dock

From Fabian Flues / 15.09.2020 Comments Disabled

How does the Energy Charter Treaty, the secret weapon of the energy industry against climate policy, work and how are countries of the Global South made to join the treaty with false promises? PowerShift has a [...]

Travel guide: EU-Mercosur - A toxic agreement

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Travel guide: EU-Mercosur - A toxic agreement

From Bettina Müller / 23.08.2020 Comments Disabled

The "Travel guide: EU-Mercosur - a toxic agreement" leads to the most popular destinations of pesticides produced in Germany, in this case in the four Mercosur states: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The [...]

Strengthening human rights and environmental protection through raw material chapters

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Strengthening human rights and environmental protection through raw material chapters

From Fabian Flues / 27.05.2020 Comments Disabled

How trade agreements could strengthen human rights and environmental protection in the raw materials sector Environmental degradation and human rights violations are commonplace in the extraction of raw materials. Nevertheless, the European Union's trade treaties are exclusively...

Integrating environmental and climate protection into trade agreements

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Integrating environmental and climate protection into trade agreements

From Fabian Flues / 11.05.2020 Comments Disabled

How trade agreements contribute to a more sustainable global economy could in many cases jeopardise ambitious environmental and climate protection. But that doesn't have to be the case. A variety of proposals exist, such as trade agreements...