Die französische Regierung hat am 25. Oktober einen Aktionsplan zu Gesundheits- und Umweltfragen für das Freihandelsabkommen CETA vorgelegt. Der französische Vorschlag kann jedoch nur angewendet werden, wenn die EU und Kanada zustimmen.
TiSA is under negotiation between the U.S., the EU, Japan and 21 other countries, which together comprise two-thirds of the world’s economy. TiSA is the brainchild of Wall Street banks that want to stop new financial regulations and begin rolling back the relatively mild safeguards adopted after the 2007 financial crisis. But TiSA would also have a devastating impact on environmental and public health policy.
Climate change, and its attendant injustices, cannot be tackled without fundamentally challenging the economic system. A system that serves the interests of -- and has been shaped and perpetuated by -- the richest and most powerful. This includes a trading system that is exploitative of people and of the planet, and which was formed on the basis of a far-from-level playing field.
48% of respondents thought that the two trans-Atlantic trade agreements CETA and TTIP would be bad for the French economy. More outcomes are explained in the article.
Why our intuition about sea-level rise is wrong. Harvard geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica explains that climate change is not just about a global average sea rise.
Wieder wurden Dokumente der TISA-Verhandlungen geleakt, diesmal aus dem Energiesektor. Kritiker bezeichnen die Dokumente ironisch als "Free Fracking Agreement", als Freihandelsvereinbarung für unbegrenztes Fracking. Jule Reimer erklärt, was es damit auf sich hat
The European Union has been caught trying to undermine any meaningful outcome from the UN climate talks in Paris by instructing its representatives to block discussion of two key mechanisms that could help combat the effects of global warming: the introduction of measures to curb the negative environmental impacts of global trade, and the transfer of technology to help poorer countries in their fight against climate change.
Der Welthandel wächst und bringt Wohlstand. Mit ihm nehmen Emissionen zu: Bis 2050 vervierfacht sich der CO2-Ausstoss durch den internationalen Frachtverkehr, sagt unser Gastautor.
The simulation, which took 75 days to create on a supercomputer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, depicts CO2 emissions from May 2005 to June 2007.
"Worldprocessor is an ongoing project that started in 1988. Globes reflect data available and valid at the time of their origin. Currently there are over 300 different globes."