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 3 268-272

Subject Categories

Globalization Studies

Law and Society

DOI

10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.013

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