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Feb 20, 2025

EU-Mercosur Agreement: Old pledges, new potential impacts for food systems and a just transition

Maureen Santos

This article by Maureen Santos will focus briefly on some of the implications on the final EUMA text negotiated between 2023 and 2024 called the Brasília Package, while remaining strongly critical about the overall agreement.

Feb 13, 2025

Minnesota’s emissions rise post-pandemic, off-track to meet climate targets

Ben Lilliston

After a sharp decline in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020, Minnesota’s emissions rose in 2021 and 2022, according to new data released by the state last month. Transportation tops emission sources, agriculture a close second.

Feb 10, 2025

Mexico’s path to food sovereignty undercut by USMCA decision

Sharon Anglin Treat

Mexico’s bold plan to transform its food system toward healthier, more sustainably produced foods that support rural livelihoods and respect the country’s cultural heritage is an essential example of food sovereignty. That expression of sovereignty ran headlong into the rules in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that treat the food we eat as mere commodities to buy and sell.

Feb 10, 2025

Trade panel rules against food sovereignty, Indigenous rights and biodiversity

Sharon Anglin Treat

In the USMCA dispute regarding Mexico's measures against glyphosate and GM corn, the dispute panel released its final report on Dec. 20, 2025. It found against Mexico on every claim it took up, relied on the U.S. version of most disputed facts, invoked questionable science, and enunciated an overly broad definition of trade effects.

Canada, Mexico, U.S. flags in front of corn field

Feb 6, 2025

IATP input to the 2025 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance of the UNFCCC

Shiney Varghese

The Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) was established at the COP-16 in 2010 to assist the UNFCCC-COP in exercising its functions in relation to the Financial Mechanism of the Convention.

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