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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 …

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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 …

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Briefing: Burning land: how much land will be required for Europe’s bioenergy?

New research by the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) for Friends of the Earth Europe shows how Europe’s consumption of bioenergy is exerting unparalleled and unsustainable new pressures on the world’s land and forests. With demand for bioenergy (crops and wood used for transport fuel, heating and electricity) set to more than double …

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