by Sara Leal | 11/05/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* In March this year, the European proposal for a side letter to strengthen environmental commitments of the Chapter on Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur was leaked. To make a...
by Sara Leal | 08/02/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* “You have to consider, above all, life. Because from different territories that they [European Union] will acquire products, many people died and are still dying for the greed of an unbridled development without thinking about the climate balance, social...
by Sara Leal | 02/02/2023 | News
By Lays Ushirobira* When talking about reducing deforestation in the Amazon, it is common to hear the false argument that this would be a barrier to agribusiness, a sector that accounted for 47.6% of Brazilian exports in 2022, according to the Ministry of Agriculture....
by Sara Leal | 01/02/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* The election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the new President of Brazil raised expectations that Free Trade Agreement negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur (EU-Mercosur agreement) will resume. A free trade agreement between the European...
by Sara Leal | 26/01/2023 | News
The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed with more than a third of remaining forest affected by humans, according to a new study published on January 27 in the journal ‘Science’. The paper was led by an...
