Events

Town Hall on COVID-19, Trade and Resilience

May 27th, 2020

Join Citizen Trade Campaign for a virtual town hall on May 27. IATP's Senior Attorney Sharon Treat will present on preventing a corporate-driven "shock doctrine" in upcoming trade deals.  Free trade agreements that prioritize private profits over healthy communities have made the world far less resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic’s dual public health and economic crises. Corporate lobby groups are doubling-down on calls for new trade deals that could harm us even further.

Past Events

The Green New Deal(s) the world needs now: Alternative trade rules for climate action

May 21st, 2020

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung webinar series Everything up for grabs: The Green New Deal(s) the world needs now continues with a conversation moderated by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Karen Hansen-Kuhn.  Chapter Three — Alternative trade rules for climate action   Thursday, May 21 2020  10 a.m. CST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CEST 

TTIP 2.0 and Regulatory Cooperation - What lobbyists and regulators have in store for us

May 20th - May 27th, 2020

Little is known about the EU-U.S. trade talks on a "TTIP 2.0" that were launched in 2018. The EU Commission has heavily scaled back transparency efforts and is effectively shielding the negotiations from public scrutiny. Part I: Threats to democracy | May 20, 5 p.m. CET / 11 a.m. EDT Moderator: Max Bank (LobbyControl)Speakers: Laura Große (LobbyControl), Alessa Hartmann (PowerShift)

The Human Right to Food and Just Transition in Agriculture: Global Perspectives

March 6th, 2020

The increasing urgency of the climate crisis is creating new opportunities for structural reforms to farm, trade, food and energy policies. It is critical to ensure that justice and equity are at the center of these reforms. The Human Right to Food and Just Transition are global frameworks that offer complimentary approaches to systemic reform of our food, agriculture, and energy systems. These frameworks also protect the rights of food producers, consumers and rural and urban communities.