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The Natural Resources Defense Council has projected that Europe could be receiving 700,000 barrels of tar sands bitumen a day by 2020.
Documents and emails obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘collusion’ between Brussels and industry over the fossil fuel push in free trade negotiations.
More than two thirds of European oil refineries are now equipped to process tar sands, research has found, raising fears the EU is ready to welcome a flood of imports of one of the most environmentally devastating fuels in production.
The EU’s professed commitment to sustainable development is not reflected in its proposed text for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
While the text of the TPP does address the environment in general ways, it does so with none of the urgency that climate change action demands.
With almost half of our carbon emissions and over 90 percent of our planet's warming being absorbed by the ocean, the cheap goods on our grocery store shelves might not be such a good deal after all.
The Trans Pacific Partnership is in climate denial - nowhere in its more than 5,000 pages does it mention climate change.
The final text of a huge 12-country trade agreement has confirmed the "worst nightmares" of environmental groups, with no mention of climate change in its lone environment chapter and weak enforcement mechanisms
The basic point is that TPP is a trade agreement that has all kinds of provisions intended to restrict regulations.
New trade deals like CETA, TPP and TTIP will likely increase the production, trade and consumption of industrial food, with important implications in terms of climate change.
