ISDS Case Map
alternatives
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.
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland.
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.
It is possible to effectively integrate the Paris Agreement into new trade deals, including CETA and the upcoming JEFTA with Japan.
It is now time we open up the dialogue on the kind of trade agreements that we want to see in place.
We have highlighted some of the main limitations of the approach taken and how greater accountability could be established in current agreements.
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.
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.
How international investment treaties could promote more responsible investment and argues that, while some innovative practices are emerging, there is still much to do.
To transform NAFTA from a polluter-friendly deal into one that supports environmental protection, any renegotiation must include, at a minimum, these eight changes.
