<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">Today the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/23/ttip-eu-negotiators-appear-to-break-environmental-pledge-in-leaked-draft" target="_blank" class="">Guardian</a> leaked the recently released EU proposal for the TTIP Sustainable Development Chapter. You can see the Guardian article, and the leaked chapter, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/23/ttip-eu-negotiators-appear-to-break-environmental-pledge-in-leaked-draft" target="_blank" class="">here</a>.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">Below is a press release from Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth Europe, and PowerShift and an <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/SD%20Analysis%20Consolidated%2010-19%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" class="">analysis of the leaked text</a> from our organizations.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">You can help promote by retweeting <a href="https://twitter.com/sierraclub/status/657635800302141440" target="_blank" class="">here</a>!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ilana</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font color="#888888" class=""></font><font color="#888888" class=""></font><font color="#888888" class=""></font><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" style="width: 650px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><div style="border: 2px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" class=""><font color="#888888" class=""></font><font color="#888888" class=""></font><font color="#888888" class=""></font><table border="0" cellpadding="5" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Friday, Oct. 23, 2015</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Contacts:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Dan Byrnes (Sierra Club): <a href="tel:202-495-3039" value="+12024953039" target="_blank" class="">202-495-3039</a> or </span><a href="mailto:daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Natacha Cingotti, (Friends of the Earth Europe): +32 4 9294 8898 or </span><a href="mailto:natacha.cingotti@foeeurope.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">natacha.cingotti@foeeurope.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Peter Fuchs (PowerShift): <a href="tel:%2B49-%280%2930-419%2034%20182" value="+493041934182" target="_blank" class="">+49-(0)30-419 34 182</a>, </span><a href="mailto:Peter.Fuchs@power-shift.de" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Peter.Fuchs@power-shift.de</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2015/10/transatlantic-trade-leak-exposes-eu-s-failure-protect-our-air-water-health" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">View as webpage</span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Transatlantic Trade Leak Exposes EU’s Failure to Protect Our Air, Water, Health</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Sierra Club and Partners Publish Analysis of Trade Document</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">WASHINGTON, DC</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> – A leaked European Union document </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/23/ttip-eu-negotiators-appear-to-break-environmental-pledge-in-leaked-draft" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">published today by the Guardian</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> has revealed that the EU is willing to trade away essential environmental safeguards during the ongoing EU-US trade talks. The U.S. is currently negotiating the proposed </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/truth-behind-ttip" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">(TTIP) with the European Union, while the Obama Administration tries to drum up Congressional support for the </span><a href="http://sierraclub.org/tpp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Trans-Pacific Partnership</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> (TPP), a similar trade deal with 11 Pacific Rim nations. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The leaked document, which provides an overview of the EU’s opening position on “sustainable development” in the TTIP negotiations, is full of nonbinding and unenforceable commitments that show that the EU is not committed to safeguarding essential environmental policies and public health protections. It also fails to even mention TTIP’s many threats to our clean air, clean water, and our climate, or propose any concrete measures to counter these threats.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Environmental groups in the U.S. and in Europe have expressed their “deep concern” about the EU position in their </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/SD%20Analysis%20Consolidated%2010-19%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">analysis of the text</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">, warning that nothing in the proposed text would prevent foreign corporations from attacking environmental policies in unaccountable trade tribunals or from TTIP expanding trade in dangerous fossil fuels like oil and gas.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The groups have also stated that the document’s weak language contradicts the EU’s previous</span><a href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/january/tradoc_153013.1%20TSD.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">claims</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> that a forthcoming proposal for a TTIP chapter on “Trade and sustainable development” would aim to “safeguard basic rules that protect… the environment” and “reinforce[e]… environmental governance.”</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">“This sustainable development proposal is anything but sustainable,” said </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">. “It's window-dressing, at best. Not only are the supposed environmental safeguards toothless, but the proposal lacks any enforcement mechanism. Nothing in the chapter would change the fact that TTIP would empower corporations like Shell and Chevron to challenge climate and environmental policies in private trade tribunals and lead to increased exports and production of oil and gas. The United States cannot afford to join trade deals -- Trans-Pacific, Trans-Atlantic, or otherwise -- that set us back on environmental progress and climate action.” </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">“This new leak illustrates that the European Commission is not serious about protecting essential safeguards for citizens and the environment in the context of the TTIP talks,” said </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Natacha Cingotti, trade campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">. The negotiations are already being used as a lobby vehicle by powerful corporate polluters who are likely to get VIP treatment above the rest of society, the only chapter that could bring strong language to protect essential regulations to build a sustainable future are weak and unenforceable.”</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Environmental groups have </span><a href="http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2014/05/green-groups-leaked-energy-text-exposes-trade-european-union-endangers-action" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">already expressed concerns about the negative climate impacts of the EU’s TTIP negotiating objectives</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">, including the decision to prioritise access to U.S. fossil fuels instead of maximizing the potential of clean energy and energy efficiency, despite having set targets to reduce climate emissions by 2020.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">###</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">More information:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">To read the analysis of the text by the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth Europe, and PowerShift, click here: </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/SD%20Analysis%20Consolidated%2010-19%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/SD%20Analysis%20Consolidated%2010-19%20FINAL.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class=""> </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The main points of the proposed chapter can be summarised as follows:</span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The leaked text fails to provide any adequate defense for environment-related policies likely to be undermined by TTIP. For example, nothing in the text would prevent foreign corporations from launching challenges against climate or other environmental policies adopted on either side of the Atlantic in unaccountable trade tribunals.</span></div></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The environmental provisions are vaguely worded, creating loopholes that would allow governments to continue environmentally harmful practices. The chapter lacks any obligation to ratify multilateral agreements that would bolster environmental protection and includes a set of vague goals with respect to biological diversity, illegal wildlife trade, and chemicals.</span></div></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The leaked text includes several provisions that the European Commission may claim as “safeguards,” such as a recognition of the “right of each Party determine its sustainable development policies and priorities” but none would effectively shield environmental policies from being challenged by rules in TTIP. </span></div></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">There is no enforcement mechanism for any of the provisions mentioned in the text. Even if one were included, it would still be weaker than the enforcement mechanism provided for foreign investors either through the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism or the renamed investment court system.</span></div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">About the Sierra Club</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 2.4 million members and supporters nationwide. In addition to creating opportunities for people of all ages, levels and locations to have meaningful outdoor experiences, the Sierra Club works to safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and litigation. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org" target="_blank" class="">http://www.sierraclub.org</a>.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">About Friends of the Earth Europe</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of the environment, unites 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International. For further information, see <a href="http://www.foeeurope.org" target="_blank" class="">www.foeeurope.org</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">About PowerShift</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;" class="">PowerShift (full name: PowerShift - Verein für eine ökologisch-solidarische Energie- & Weltwirtschaft) is a Berlin-based German NGO, which is monitoring European trade, investment, energy and raw materials policies. PowerShift calls for a new, sustainable approach to international trade and investment rules and plays a crucial role in German, European, and transatlantic networking and advocacy around the ongoing TTIP negotiations between the U.S. and the EU. 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