Tag: Deforestation

• Towards a measurement of the trade-biodiversity nexus

  

  Biodiversity degradation is an underevaluated knock-on effect of trade liberalisation. That’s because enhanced demand through free trade agreements (FTAs) increases land clearing, whether that be due to agriculture, mining, fishing or hydrocarbon extraction. Costs on climate, linked to energy-intensive industrial production and freight transport, are also enormous. Since 2019, opposition to the EU-Mercosur deal has…

  Barnabé Colin

  May 21, 2021

  Biodiversity, climate change, Environment, EU, Sustainability

  Biodiversity, Climate, Deforestation, Environment, Europe, finance, Green Deal, Sustainability, Trade