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Why climate litigation could soon go global

11-Oct-2014 Globe and Mail

Climate change is already causing about $600-billion in damages annually, gobally. Oil and gas companies could soon find themselves on the hook for at least part of the damage.

Slovenia: Left demands transparency on Transatlantic trade deals

10-Oct-2014 STA

The United Left (ZL), a coalition of leftist parties, demanded on Friday answers from the Slovenian government about the secretive Transatlantic trade agreements as pressure mounts on governments across the EU to reveal the details of the far-reaching accords.

Document reveals EU bullied Ecuador into trade agreement

10-Oct-2014 TeleSur

A document leaked today shows that Ecuador’s government was threatened with isolation and a devastating loss to its trade if it didn’t return to the negotiating table for the EU-Andean Trade agreement.

EU publishes its mandate for US trade talks

10-Oct-2014 RTE

The EU has published its — widely leaked — negotiating mandate for a free trade deal with the United States in a bid to quell opposition to the proposed accord.

The arbitration game

10-Oct-2014 Economist

Governments are souring on treaties to protect foreign investors

Venezuela ordered to pay Exxon $1.6 bln for nationalization

10-Oct-2014 Reuters

A World Bank arbitration tribunal on Thursday ordered Venezuela to pay Exxon Mobil Corp around $1.6 billion to compensate for the 2007 nationalization of its oil projects in the country.

INTA debates EU-Japan trade

10-Oct-2014 Parliament Magazine

The European Commission made it very clear that it would be difficult to see the end of negotiations if nothing happens in terms of taxation of cars in Japan.

China’s Zhu: Asia-Pacific trade deal would be incomplete without Beijing

9-Oct-2014 Reuters

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact would be "incomplete" in the long term without China, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday.

EU-US FTA (TTIP) - EU negotiating mandate (2013)

9-Oct-2014 DG Trade

TTIP negotiating mandate published

9-Oct-2014 Stop-TTIP.org

The European Council today published the negotiating mandate for the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP).

China, US likely to conclude BIT talks in two years, says official

9-Oct-2014 Xinhua

China and the United States are likely to conclude bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations within two years, China’s Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Wednesday.

Slovenia: Panel issues strong criticism of EU’s secret free trade talks

9-Oct-2014 STA

A Slovenian NGO-sponsored panel criticises the lack of transparency in the EU’s talks on free trade agreements with the US and Canada.

Six years after JPEPA: PHL the world’s toxic waste dump site?

8-Oct-2014 GMA News

Six years after the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) was signed, Philippines may be becoming the world’s dump site for toxic waste.

Myanmar and Israel sign an agreement to cement bilateral trade

8-Oct-2014 The Nation

Israeli Ambassador to Myanmar Hagay M Behar and DICA director general Aung Naing signed a reciprocal promotion and protection of investments agreement in Yangon yesterday.

’Plan B’ needed for EU-US trade pact - Italian minister

8-Oct-2014 Reuters

Italy said on Wednesday there needed to be a "plan B" that foresees a partial EU-US trade deal in order to sidestep deadlock over specific issues.

Responding to frequently asked questions: TPP TTIP pharmaceutical reimbursement “transparency”

8-Oct-2014 Infojustice

Brand name pharmaceutical companies are advocating for inclusion of disciplines on public pharmaceutical reimbursement programs in the ongoing negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Canada braces for EU trade pact dispute with Germany

8-Oct-2014 Bloomberg

Canada is bracing for a dispute with Germany over whether its newly-agreed free trade pact with the European Union should be re-opened to erase arbitration clauses.

CETA and climate change: Why the new Euro-Canada treaty is a gift to oil firms

8-Oct-2014 Counter Punch

Short of an international treaty banning all government regulations outright, CETA gives the oil and gas industry virtually everything it has been asking for, for decades.