Leaked Doc Shows 'Toxic Trade Deal' Putting Environmental Safeguards on the Chopping Block
A leaked of draft of negotiating text from a pending EU-U.S. trade deal shows that the bloc is ready to empower corporate polluters while going back on its promise to uphold environmental protections, groups on both sides of the Atlantic warn.
The text is of the sustainable development chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and was published Friday by the Guardian—the same day negotiators wrapped up the 11th round of talks on the deal in Miami.
"This sustainable development proposal is anything but sustainable," Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program, said in a statement accompanying the analysis.
"Nothing in the chapter would change the fact that TTIP would empower corporations like Shell and Chevron to challenge climate and environmental policies in private trade tribunals and lead to increased exports and production of oil and gas," Solomon added. "The United States cannot afford to join trade deals—Trans-Pacific, Trans-Atlantic, or otherwise—that set us back on environmental progress and climate action.
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