*[Enwl-eng] URGENT: save the Amazon - stop the trade deal

Wed Aug 28 15:56:08 MSK 2019

      Rainforests are burning for our cheap meat. A disastrous EU-Brazil trade deal will make it worse. Halt the EU-Brazil trade negotiations now!

      SIGN NOW! 

Hi,

The burning of the Amazon is out of control. It has being set on fire for cheap meat, as the cattle and soy agribusinesses accelerate their attack against the Amazon rainforest. 

And the situation could worsen. The EU is negotiating a trade deal - similar to TTIP - with South America countries, including Brazil. For far right-wing Brazilian President Bolsonaro getting the deal signed is very important, as it would mean Brazil could export cheap beef and soy all over Europe.

As Europeans, we can help stop the Amazon fires! The leaders of France and Ireland have threatened to vote against this deal unless Brazil takes action. We can call all the EU leaders to follow their example and make sure that Brazil stops the Amazon fires!

            SIGN - Stop the trade deal and save the Amazon!  

With the blessing of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, illegal loggers are mounting an all-out assault on our planet’s “green lung”. First they cut down the trees, then they burn the land and use it for agriculture. They are destroying its vital carbon stores, and the hundreds of thousands of species who call it home. All to help the meat industry. [1] 

And Europe is about to add fuel to the fire! The EU is about to sign a “new TTIP” with the Mercosur bloc, aka Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay. It is a deal to import cheap beef, soy, wood and other products grown on the Amazon’s ashes.

The EU-Brazil trade deal is president Bolsonaro’s pride and joy. And he knows the stakes are high: the EU is Brazil’s second largest trade partner. This deal has been negotiated for over 20 years and is about to be finalized. The neoliberal trade worshipper Bolsonaro boasts about how he will get it signed. [2] With the negotiations still open, the EU has powerful means to pressure Bolsonaro to save the Amazon.

As Europeans, we must mobilise immediately and in huge numbers, and tell our leaders to halt the EU-Brazil negotiations right now!

            SIGN - Stop the trade deal and save the Amazon!  

The trade deal between the EU and the Mercosur block would allow commodities from those countries to be fast-tracked into Europe, fattening corporate pockets on both sides.

The politicians behind the deal claim it includes a “commitment to tackle deforestation” -- but over 600 scientists, two Brazilian indigenous organisations and 340 civil society groups are calling foul. [3] Europe must not reward Bolsonaro and his corporate cronies for the unspeakable rainforest and climate devastation that has occurred since he took office just eight months ago.

Can ordinary people like you and me really make a difference in halting a years-in-the-making treaty between world superpowers? Of course we can! Remember TTIP? When the EU and US were on the verge of signing an agreement that would’ve flooded Europe with hormone-treated meat and GMO produce, people like you joined a three-million-strong citizens’ movement to stop it -- and your pressure helped get the deal called off.

Now, we’ve got to push back against the EU-Brazil deal and convince the new, greener European Parliament and the new European leaders who declare they want to fight for climate that there can be no deal as long as the Amazon is burning.

            SIGN - Stop the trade deal and save the Amazon!  

Deforestation isn’t the only reason we should be worried about the EU-Mercosur agreement. If it passes, Europe will be importing a whole lot more fruit and veg treated with banned pesticides. [4] Thanks to Bolsonaro’s loosened regulations, megacorporations like Syngenta have been churning out chemicals in Brazil that they aren’t allowed to make here. They’re sprayed all over crops that could soon reach our supermarket shelves – unless we block this deal right now.

Thank you!

Marta (Warsaw), Andrew (Amsterdam), Fatima (London) and the entire WeMove Europe team

PS. Italy, Ireland, and France have already voiced doubts about the EU- Brazil trade deal [5] -- an avalanche of public opposition could tip the scales and turn all of Europe against this dangerous new partnership. So please, will you add your name now?

References:
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/americas/brazil-beef-amazon-rainforest-fire-intl/index.html https://www.wired.com/story/humans-more-than-drought-are-fueling-the-amazons-flames/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/climate-change-oxygen-biodiversity-amazon-rainforest-fires-leave-plenty-stake-n1045446
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-brazil-bolsonaro/brazils-bolsonaro-says-mercosur-will-soon-sign-eu-trade-deal-idUSKCN1T72BV
[3] http://s2bnetwork.org/letter-brasil-bolsonaro-eu-mercosur/
[4] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/pesticides-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-amazon-deforestation-agribusiness-a8957261.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/12/hundreds-new-pesticides-approved-brazil-under-bolsonaro
[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/ireland-could-oppose-trade-deal-brazil-fails-stop-amazon-fires-leo-varadkar https://news.italianfood.net/2019/07/02/the-doubts-of-italy-on-the-eu-mercosur-agreement/

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