How the EU pesticide lobby is harming people and planet in the Global South Corporations like Bayer and BASF, who are the leading European pesticide producers, have been heavily promoting the EU-Mercosur trade deal through lobby groups. Their joint lobby efforts have borne fruit: pesticide use has multiplied sixfold over the last 20 years and a …
The powers pushing for a planet-wrecking trade deal
This report exposes the corporations most eagerly and successfully lobbying for the EU-Mercosur trade deal – a deal designed to increase profits at the expense of climate, biodiversity, health and indigenous rights. Friends of the Earth Europe has demanded through “access to documents” requests correspondence and minutes relating to various lobby meetings of the European …
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Ethanol expansion under the EU-Mercosur trade deal
An EU-turn on the green transition European chemical companies are set to benefit from an increased trade in ethanol, thanks to the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement. Portrayed as a green fuel, ethanol is primarily exported to Europe from Brazil where it is made mainly from sugarcane. But the expansion of sugarcane, a water- intensive crop, grown …
EU Trade Commissioner: Stop EU-Mercosur
Amid record-breaking deforestation, rampant fires and increased attacks against indigenous people in Brazil, the European commission is still pushing for the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Recent reports have shown that deforestation rates are even higher than previous year. The commission is trying to save the deal by fixing it with environmental protocols, but …
Joint letter: Concerns over EU-Mercosur trade deal
Today, trade ministers meet in Brussels to discuss, amongst other issues ,the state of play on the EU-Mercosur Agreement. They will discuss how additional protocols and annexes could save the deal.With this letter to heads of states and ministers, a broad coalition of civil society groups both from South America and Europe reiterates its calls …
EU trade deal set to increase harmful meat imports
European supermarkets including Casino, Carrefour and Albert Heijn are selling meat products linked to deforestation and human rights violations to unwitting consumers, and the EU plans to increase the number of destructive products on supermarket shelves with the proposed EU-Mercosur trade deal, reveals a report released today by Repórter Brasil and Friends of the Earth Europe.
