Compass World Economy To Go #62.1: Toxic trade - How the EU-Mercosur agreement encourages pesticide use

It has been negotiated for 25 years. Now the EU-Mercosur agreement is entering the hot phase. The trade agreement is due to go to the EU Council for ratification in September, after which it could enter into force soon – and thus extremely boost the export of pesticides to Mercosur countries Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. You can find out what danger the poisons pose to people and the environment and how the agreement can perhaps still be prevented in this compass World Economy To Go episode.

• Web series from PowerShift to EU & Mercosur: Overview and registration for the Zoom events
• PowerShift campaign against the EU-Mercosur agreement: Collection of protest postcards, publications and videos
• Toxic transactions with the EU-Mercosur agreement: PowerShift Newspaper Supplement on the Trade in Pesticides