17 results
-
Series Trade, climate and human rights – at odds or reconcilable?
Cornelia Maarfield from Climate Action Network Europe explores how unsustainable patterns of trade have driven deforestation and environmental destruction, and proposes new trade rules.
View Post -
Series A New Trade Vision for a Green New Deal
As world leaders meet at the UN climate negotiations in Glasgow civil society groups are launching a new resource to outline the threats that trade and investment treaties pose to climate action.
View Post -
Series How the Energy Charter Treaty allows corporate power to derail climate action
The ECT allows fossil fuel companies to obstruct climate action by suing states for huge sums in compensation. There are increasing calls for countries to withdraw from the Treaty, as the ECT Secretariat seeks new signatories in the Global South.
View Post -
Series VIP protection for multinationals vs talking shops for human rights: the fundamental imbalance in trade and investment deals
Jude Kirton-Darling reflects on how EU trade and investment policy can be improved to better support human rights and labour rights around the world
View Post -
Series How will post-Brexit trade deals affect human rights?
David Lawrence from Trade Justice Movement reflects on how the UK's post-Brexit trade policy can be designed to better support human rights and the environment.
View Post -
Series USMCA: A New Frontier for Labour Rights in Trade Deals
Daniel Rangel from Public Citizen looks at how provisions in the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal are helping to support labour rights in Mexico
View Post -
Series Reform or Bust – No WTO without workers’ rights for fair competition
Sharan Burrow and Phil Bloomer call for reform of the World Trade Organisation so that trade rules better support human rights and labour rights
View Post