Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test
| Autor: | Tiago N.P. dos Reis, Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Laura Kehoe, Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, Helmut Haberl, Chris O’Connell, Katie L. Murtough, Viola Valeska Schäfer, S. L. Bager, Thomas Kastner, Malika Virah-Sawmy, Ralf Seppelt, Cecilie Friis, Kyle Frankel Davis, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, Michael Clark, Joseph M. Kiesecker, Katharine N. Farrell, Erika Berenguer, U. Martin Persson, Yann le Polain de Waroux |
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| Přispěvatelé: | UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Human rights
Inclusion (disability rights) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Cornerstone International trade Transparency (behavior) Trade agreement Test (assessment) Sustainability Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) business Enforcement General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | One Earth One Earth, Vol. 3, no.3, p. 268-272 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2590-3322 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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