The global system of intensive meat and dairy production is having an increasingly devastating impact on society and the environment – the system is broken. The way we produce and consume meat and dairy needs a radical rethink, in order to curb corporate control over food, to reduce health and environmental impacts and to help …
Contribution to the European Commission consultation on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP
Friends of the Earth Europe’s full response to the European Commission consultation on investment protection and ISDS in the EU-US trade deal.
Briefing: What “greater rights for investors” really means
EU-US trade: the myths behind the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism. This is a controversial tool that allows companies to use trade agreements to file expensive private lawsuits against host states when democratically-agreed regulatory changes are deemed to affect their investment potential, including their profits. Among other shortcomings, the system has been criticised for fully relying …
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Briefing: EU-US trade deal: A bumper crop for ‘big food’?
The drive for ‘regulatory coherence’ in the transatlantic trade talks risks pushing food and farming standards down in the US and EU. Big food and biotech companies are pushing to eliminate EU restrictions on genetically modified (GM) foods and food additives, challenge food labelling laws which they think are barriers to trade, and undermine the …
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Briefing: The risks of including investor-to-state dispute settlement in transatlantic trade talks
The TTIP of the anti-democracy iceberg: this briefing examines the dangers inherent in introducing provisions for investor-state dispute settlement in the EU-US trade talks. This mechanism would empower foreign investors to challenge national authorities in international courts, in order to claim financial compensation if they deem that their investment potential (and related profits) are being …
Briefing: Understanding the biofuel trade-offs between Indirect land use change (ILUC), hunger and poverty
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU are currently considering reforms that could change the course of biofuels policy – by ensuring that only biofuels that “help achieving substantial emission cuts, do not directly compete with food and are more sustainable at the same time” are promoted. However, a new analysis by Searchinger …
