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Harrison, James and Pauli, Sophia (2020) The trade and sustainable development chapter in the EU Mercosur Association Agreement - is it fit for purpose? ClientEarth.
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Abstract
The Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Chapter of EU-Mercosur Association Agreement (EUMAA) has been widely touted by its supporters as effectively addressing the environmental and social concerns raised by EUMAA’s critics. This paper, written by James Harrison and Sophia Paulini, carefully scrutinises the claims of the TSD Chapter’s proponents.
They conclude that the TSD Chapter does not significantly reinforce countries’ climate change commitments as set out in the Paris Agreement. Nor does it provide a strong framework for addressing other important environmental and social issues. The chapter neither ensures against EUMAA itself increasing environmental and social harms, nor is itself a building block towards more sustainable trade. It does not even ensure that the effects of the Agreement are properly monitored so that we know what its effects are, and can react accordingly. Therefore, the authors conclude that the TSD Chapter is not fit for purpose.
Harrison and Paulini argue that if the reality of EUMAA and its TSD Chapter is to live up to the rhetoric of its proponents, then fundamental reform is needed.
Item Type: | Report | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Publisher: | ClientEarth | ||||||
Official Date: | 15 July 2020 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
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