The European Union and the USA have been negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) behind closed doors since 2013. Negotiators kept insisting that their secret talks would work in the best interest of the public and the environment. But since Greenpeace leaked the TTIP draft negotiating documents it became clearer than ever, that this trade agreement could become one of the most dangerous weapons in the hands of the fossil fuel industry in its effort to kill Climate Action for the 21st century.
TTIP könnte die Ziele des Pariser Klimaabkommens gefährden. Auch TiSA bedroht das Klima, durch das Abkommen könnten Regierungen erneuerbare Energien nicht mehr subventionieren.
Brüssel/Quito. Die Europäische Union und Ecuador haben am vergangenen Freitag ein Handelsabkommen unterzeichnet. Für die Regierung Ecuadors handelt es sich aber um keinen Freihandelsvertrag, wie Kritiker behaupten. Auf der Homepage des Ministeriums für Außenhandel sowie der EU sind die Vereinbarungen nachzulesen.
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.