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The production of agricultural commodities such as beef, soy, palm oil and cocoa is responsible for 70% of all deforestation! Ask the European Commission to adapt a law ensuring that EU imports are free from deforestation and land grabs. Land rights activists are being criminalized and murdered. According to Global Witness 200 land defenders have been murdered in 2016. There are over 160 indigenous people in jail in Indonesia for protecting or using their ancestral forests. 3964 people were arrested between 1995 and 2014. Many people fall ill because Glyphosat is used on nearby soy plantations. Although the EU has committed to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation by 2020, it has never taken any steps to stop the terrible impacts that result from the consumption of these goods.

In wenigen Tagen werden sich Führungspersonen von der ganzen Welt treffen um das Klimaschutzabkommen von Paris von bloßen Versprechungen in tatsächliche Handlungen umzusetzen. Rufen Sie Führungspersönlichkeiten der EU auf die Interessensgruppen der großen Verschmutzer von den Klimaverhandlungen auszuladen und fernzuhalten; sonst kann es keinen Fortschritt geben. Das ist vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der Trump Regierung bitter notwendig, die alles tut um den Klimaschutz zu sabotieren.

In just a few days world leaders will meet to turn the Paris agreement from a set of promised goals into concrete climate action. Call leaders of the EU for a policy that would keep Big Polluters from interfering in the climate talks; otherwise there can be no sufficient progress. This is very important as the Trump administration does everything to sabotage climate protection.

Am 20. März haben die EU-Regierungen der EU-Kommission das Mandat für Verhandlungen über einen globalen Gerichtshof für Konzerne („multilaterales Investitionsgericht“, MIC) erteilt. Multinationale Konzerne bedienen sich immer öfter dieser Art von Schiedsgerichten um Gesetze zum Schutz von Mensch und Umwelt anzugreifen: lesen Sie über ISDS auf elstel.org. Dies würde ein Paralleljustizsystem schaffen, mit dem Investoren die demokratische Entscheidungsfindung angreifen und unterwandern können.

On the 20^th of March the governments of the EU member states have given the European Commission the mandate for negotitations about a global investment court called MIC (multilateral investment court). Corporations increasingly use investment tribunals to attack rules that protect people and the environment: read about ISDS at elstel.org. This would entrench a massive parallel legal system that foreign investors can use to subvert democratic decision making.