Deforestation in the Mercosur region has been a source of friction in the negotiations of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, and one of the main reasons for stopping the ratification process during Bolsonaro’s mandate.
Despite some improvement on environmental protections since Lula’s come back, the conditions to conclude a sustainable trade deal with Mercosur are still not met. Together with Reporter Brasil, we have published a series of factsheets monitoring deforestation rates, human rights violations and climate emissions in Mercosur countries, and covering the most recent data on forest fires and human rights abuses especially in Brazil.
#1 How European trade deals will propel destructive agribusiness in the Mercosur region (February 2023)
#2 How the toxic EU-Mercosur deal will undermine Brazil’s climate & deforestation goals (April 2023)
#3 How the agribusiness counteroffensive threatens Brazilian environmental policy (July 2023)
#4 The last agricultural frontier (November 2023)
#5 Burning issues: forest fires and human rights abuses on the surge in Brazil (November 2024)
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Stop the EU-Mercosur trade deal
The EU is close to finalising a climate-wrecking trade deal with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – known collectively as Mercosur. But there’s still time to stop it.
