From the Trade Justice Education Fund (https://tradejusticeedfund.org/):
Officials from the U.S. and Europe are meeting in Washington, DC next month for a round of trade negotiations that could have a major impact on future green jobs initiatives.
Please join us at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/urge-negotiators-to-adopt-a-climate-peace-clause-in-upcoming-trade-talks-2 in urging the U.S. Trade Representative to use these talks to propose a “Climate Peace Clause” that ends trade attacks on green jobs programs and other climate policies.
At this very moment, the EU and other governments are using trade pacts to attack the electric vehicle tax credits and other climate provisions of the United States’ recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The provisions under attack represent the type of programs that must be improved and expanded in order to create good-paying green jobs and to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. Instead they’re being undermined by outdated trade agreements.
Trade challenges like the ones threatened against us by the EU are an obstacle to ambitious climate action and a livable future.
As negotiators meet to discuss the terms of U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) agreements, we’re asking the lead U.S. trade official to propose and adopt a Climate Peace Clause under which all parties agree to stop using the dispute resolution mechanisms of any trade and investment pacts to challenge other countries’ climate initiatives.
We’ll be delivering thousands of comments from people like you while there’s still time to make a difference in the TTC talks and other pending trade negotiations.
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