'Governments should be empowered to fight climate change and support the clean energy transition without fear of being undermined by antiquated trade rules,' said PCGTW director MelindaPubCit.
published Thursday, the Trade Justice Education Fund and the Sierra Club made the case for the urgent adoption of a"climate peace clause," which they defined as a"commitment from governments to refrain from using dispute settlement mechanisms in international trade agreements to challenge other countries' climate mitigation and/or clean energy transition measures."
"Governments must have and use every tool in the toolbox to ratchet up climate ambition, and we simply do not have time for governments to continue using outdated trade agreements to attack and undermine climate action," said Kassam."We are calling on the U.S. to propose a climate peace clause in the TTC negotiations to end trade attacks on climate policies such as initiatives to create green jobs and healthier communities.
"As two trusted trading partners committed to tackling climate change, a climate peace clause is a commonsense step the U.S. and E.U. can take right now to show leadership both on trade and on climate," said Stamoulis."We urge the U.S. to make good on its promise to create a worker- and climate-friendly model of trade and to propose and adopt a climate peace clause in the TTC."
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