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We need a progressive alternative on trade — and NAFTA 2.0 isn’t it
12-Dec-2019 Foreign Policy in Focus
Here’s what a progressive trade agenda that actually protects people and planet would actually look like.
We need a socialist trade policy
9-Dec-2019 Jacobin
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.
Beyond NAFTA 2.0: toward a progressive trade agenda for people and planet
25-Nov-2019 Open Democracy
Progressive politicians need to not just react to the neoliberal trade agenda and its right-wing disruptors, but radically transform the rules governing North American trade.
Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A trade agenda for people and planet
9-Jul-2019 CCPA
The report critically analyzes the USMCA and sets out alternatives that would give priority to human rights and the rights of nature over corporate rights.
Saving Japan’s seed heritage from “free trade”
7-Mar-2019 Local Futures
Former Japanese minister Yamada joined forces with 150 lawyers that have challenged as unconstitutional both the TPP agreement and the government’s decision to abolish the seed protection law.
Just, open and green
22-Feb-2019 New Internationalist
Trade is for and about people. It should never be separated from its social context. Trade should improve people’s lives and the public good.
Russel Norman – climate change and free trade
21-Feb-2019 Daily Blog
The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues.
“Free trade” is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent
14-Jan-2019 Truth Out
Opposition to “free” trade is clearly growing. Less clear are the alternatives to free trade that might emerge.
Trade strategy hui attracts 17,000 online viewers
27-Oct-2018 Scoop
The hui on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy Should Look Like at Auckland University’s Fale Pasifika attracted a remarkable 16,831 pageviews over the two days of live-streaming.
Converting resistance to TPPA into a new agenda for change
3-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
Our aim is to move beyond campaigns to stop these deals one by one, and create popular and political momentum for a genuinely alternative agenda.
What an alternative & progressive trade strategy should look like
2-Oct-2018 It’s Our Future
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland.
Setting course for sustainable trade – a new trade agenda that serves people and the environment
11-Apr-2018 Friends of the Earth Europe
We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes.
Trade and climate: How the EU can protect the Paris Agreement
28-Feb-2018 Euractiv
It is possible to effectively integrate the Paris Agreement into new trade deals, including CETA and the upcoming JEFTA with Japan.
Towards a peoples charter on international trade agreements
30-Jan-2018 Parti Sosialis Malaysia
It is now time we open up the dialogue on the kind of trade agreements that we want to see in place.
Anchoring labour rights more effectively in EU trade agreements
15-Jan-2018 Social Europe
We have highlighted some of the main limitations of the approach taken and how greater accountability could be established in current agreements.
UNCTAD’s 2017 high-level IIA conference: moving forward on addressing older-generation international investment agreements
22-Dec-2017 IISD
More than 300 experts, including high-level negotiators of international investment agreements and representatives from intergovernmental organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector convened in Geneva.
Calls grow for ‘green clause’ in EU trade deals
25-Oct-2017 EurActiv
There is widespread consensus on the need to level the playing field for European companies confronted with environmental and social dumping from foreign competitors. Just how hard the EU should hit on wrongdoers remains a major sticking point, however.
Responsible investment provisions in international investment treaties: where next?
23-Oct-2017 IIED
How international investment treaties could promote more responsible investment and argues that, while some innovative practices are emerging, there is still much to do.
Replacing NAFTA: Eight essential changes to an environmentally destructive deal
20-Aug-2017 Sierra Club
To transform NAFTA from a polluter-friendly deal into one that supports environmental protection, any renegotiation must include, at a minimum, these eight changes.
Phase 2 of IIA reform: Modernizing the existing stock of old-generation treaties
21-Jun-2017 UNCTAD
International investment agreement (IIA) reform has made significant progress.