Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement: How the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement Fails the Sustainability Test Comment
Journal article, 2020
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.
Author
Laura Kehoe
University of Oxford
Nature Conservancy
Tiago N. P. dos Reis
Universite catholique de Louvain
Patrick Meyfroidt
National Fund for Scientific Research
Universite catholique de Louvain
Simon Bager
Universite catholique de Louvain
Ralf Seppelt
Helmholtz
Tobias Kuemmerle
Humboldt University of Berlin
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Erika Berenguer
Lancaster University
University of Oxford
Michael Clark
University of Oxford
Kyle Frankel Davis
University of Delaware
Columbia University
Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen
Universite catholique de Louvain
National Fund for Scientific Research
Katharine Nora Farrell
Humboldt University of Berlin
Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Cecilie Friis
Humboldt University of Berlin
Helmut Haberl
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Thomas Kastner
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F)
Katie L. Murtough
University of Oxford
Martin Persson
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory
Alfredo Romero-Munoz
Humboldt University of Berlin
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Chris O'Connell
Dublin City University
Viola Valeska Schäfer
Malika Virah-Sawmy
Humboldt University of Berlin
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Yann le Polain de Waroux
McGill University
Joseph Kiesecker
Nature Conservancy
One Earth
25903330 (ISSN) 25903322 (eISSN)
Vol. 3 3 268-272Subject Categories
Globalization Studies
Law and Society
DOI
10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013