19-Jul-2023
Climate Change News
Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is gone but agribusiness and congress are still a threat to Brazil’s indigenous communities.
12-Jul-2023
Premium Times
The Lekki Deep Sea Port seeks to position Nigeria for the big gains of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA), competitive transhipment, and status upgrade, but local communities want a share of this prosperity and protection.
21-Jun-2023
The Jakarta Post
Seeking to avoid the fiasco of finalizing negotiations during next year’s elections in Indonesia, the European Union wants to conclude trade negotiations by the end of this year, while its more controversial deforestation policy, which could hammer Indonesia’s palm oil industry, continues to cast a heavy pall in Jakarta.
8-Jun-2023
The Greens/EFA
The EU will import more meat and other agricultural products - with them, emissions, deforestation, soil contamination and human rights abuses - while endangering local farmers’ livelihoods in the Mercosur region and in the European Union.
30-May-2023
bilaterals.org
Colonial practices are still felt today, as capital-exporting states and their investors shape trade and investment rules while ignoring the populations of capital-importing countries.
24-May-2023
Alianza Cero Deforestacion
50 environmental and human rights groups from around the world expressed grave concern that the EU will use its new deforestation regulation to ratify the trade deal with Mercosur.
22-May-2023
The Tico Times
Three German investors have filed an investment arbitration claim against Costa Rica for the expropriation of their land for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant.
17-May-2023
The Hindu BusinessLine
Negotiations on the Early Progress Trade Agreement are at an advanced stage for many sectors, say officials.
12-May-2023
Bilaterals.org
Indonesia is a country that is particularly active and aggressive in negotiating free trade and investment agreements. The food industry, notably fisheries, is often threatened by such agreements.
26-Apr-2023
Friends of the Earth Europe
While the Amazon passes irreversible environmental tipping points and new toxic chemicals leave a trail of contamination, the European Union is actively signing away more of the planet and people in the lethal EU-Mercosur free trade agreement.