TY - JOUR
T1 - Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
AU - Kehoe, Laura
AU - dos Reis, Tiago N.P.
AU - Meyfroidt, Patrick
AU - Bager, Simon
AU - Seppelt, Ralf
AU - Kuemmerle, Tobias
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - Clark, Michael
AU - Davis, Kyle Frankel
AU - zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K.H.J.
AU - Farrell, Katharine Nora
AU - Friis, Cecilie
AU - Haberl, Helmut
AU - Kastner, Thomas
AU - Murtough, Katie L.
AU - Persson, U. Martin
AU - Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo
AU - O’Connell, Chris
AU - Schäfer, Viola Valeska
AU - Virah-Sawmy, Malika
AU - le Polain de Waroux, Yann
AU - Kiesecker, Joseph
PY - 2020/9/18
Y1 - 2020/9/18
N2 - Trade agreements could help to protect human rights, critical ecosystems, and the climate—but only if sustainability becomes a cornerstone of international trade. The EU-Mercosur trade agreement fails to meet our three tenets of sustainable trade agreements: (1) inclusion of local communities, (2) transparency mechanisms to trace commodities and provide open-access information, and (3) enforcement to legally uphold sustainability commitments.
AB - Trade agreements could help to protect human rights, critical ecosystems, and the climate—but only if sustainability becomes a cornerstone of international trade. The EU-Mercosur trade agreement fails to meet our three tenets of sustainable trade agreements: (1) inclusion of local communities, (2) transparency mechanisms to trace commodities and provide open-access information, and (3) enforcement to legally uphold sustainability commitments.
U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013
DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013
M3 - Comment/debate
VL - 3
SP - 268
EP - 272
JO - One Earth
JF - One Earth
SN - 2590-3322
IS - 3
ER -