Blogs
Why the UK needs to drop corporate courts from the Pacific trade deal
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 3 March 2023
Campaigns: Trade
The UK might be close to joining the Pacific trade deal. That’s bad news for the climate, for food standards and for global inequality. The Pacific trade deal was agreed […]
Read moreWhat is the Energy Charter Treaty and why do we need to exit?
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 24 June 2022
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is a climate-wrecking corporate court agreement that fossil fuel companies are already using to sue governments for billions over climate action. It’s a deal between […]
Read morePhoto story: Corporate Courts Vs The Climate
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 18 March 2022
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
Fossil fuel companies are using secretive tribunals written into trade deals to sue governments for more than $18 billion over climate policy. These big polluters should be paying to fix the […]
Read moreDon’t let fossil fuel companies block climate action
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 26 June 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
When the world’s governments meet in Glasgow in November to discuss the climate crisis, the threat of legal action from big polluters in ‘corporate courts’ will lurk in the shadows. […]
Read moreFive problems the UK-Australia trade deal poses for the climate
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 15 June 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Trade
How we grow, transport and buy and sell food is one of the key things for restoring our climate as well as for tackling inequality and creating a fairer society. […]
Read moreTrade Bill: Four years of demanding a say over trade deals
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 23 March 2021
Campaigns: Trade
After four years of campaigning for trade democracy, today the Trade Bill has passed its final stage in the House of Lords, and will shortly become law. Over that time […]
Read moreGood news! The US-UK trade deal is on hold
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 5 March 2021
Campaigns: Trade
We’ve got some good news. The US has kicked the US-UK trade deal into the long grass. Throughout last year Donald Trump and Boris Johnson wanted to do this high […]
Read moreHow trade deals are fuelling climate breakdown
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 7 August 2020
Campaigns: Trade
The US-UK trade deal isn’t just a threat to our food standards and public services, it’s also a threat to our world. The whole model of corporate globalisation that drives […]
Read moreThe world against the virus: 7 things we’ve learned from talking to our allies
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 15 June 2020
Campaigns: Pharma
During lockdown, Global Justice Now’s series of webinars, podcasts and interviews have been exploring what coronavirus means in the global south. Here are 7 things we’ve learned.
Read moreTrump in your trolley: how big business is pushing for lower standards through a trade deal with the US
By: Jean Blaylock
Date: 23 January 2020
Campaigns: Trade
Big business wants to use a US-UK trade deal as a way to get deregulation that they have long been pushing for. Transnational corporations try to justify this by saying […]
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