Published on Jan 29, 2015
The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (or TTIP) is called a "trade treaty". But if agreed, the TTIP would actually hand corporations the power to overturn democratically decided laws, on everything from environmental protections to food safety, through a system of regulatory cooperation and secret courts that only corporations would have access to.
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This video is a joint project of Campact, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), LobbyControl, Seattle to Brussels Network and SumOfUs.
Greenpeace:
Dirty Deals - report
How trade talks threaten to undermine EU climate policies and bring tar sands to Europe
The EU and the US are currently the world’s largest trading blocs and, if agreed, the TTIP would be the world’s largest free-trade agreement. EU and US negotiators have repeatedly stated that they aim to make the TTIP a “gold standard” agreement, or a blueprint for future trade agreements. It is therefore of critical importance that the agreement does not undermine social or environmental objectives or the ability of governments to tackle climate change.
In this context, the FQD (Fuel Quality Directive), the European Union’s key policy to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels, can be seen as a showcase example of how big business and their lobby groups are using the TTIP negotiations to weaken and delay environmental regulation.
While the US officially claims that it is merely interested in transparent decision-making, letters and emails obtained through access to document requests reveal that the US has acted in concert with fossil fuel interests and has pushed behind the scenes against effective regulations to reduce the climate footprint of the Europe’s transport fuels.
More specifically, US government officials have objected to the treatment of tar sands in the FQD, as this briefing reveals.