The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive new trade agreement between 12 countries that changes the rules of global trade and investment. The agreement tilts the playing field even more toward big multinational corporations and away from civil society, communities, and workers.
It allows corporations to demand compensation for their bad investments if new policy is implemented in the public interest, such as a tar sands oil pipeline rejection.
And it directly threatens our climate by undermining local efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
The agreement has garnered unprecedented opposition from grassroots social movements in all TPP countries and across movements in the US. Immigrant rights groups, LGBTQ activists, labor unions, affordable health care advocates, free internet defenders, and frontline communities fighting fossil fuel projects all have taken a strong stand against the agreement.
Check out these resources on how the TPP threatens the climate and our communities.
Sierra Club, “Climate Roadblocks: Looming Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground”
Sierra Club, “A Dirty Deal: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Our Climate”
Declaration and Program of Action of Parliamentarians and Social Movements in opposition to the
Trans-Pacific Partnership signed in Mexico on January 28th, 2016
Ben Beachy, “The Corporation Behind Keystone XL Just Laid Bare the TPP’s Threats to Our Climate”
Sierra Club, “An Explosion of Fracking? One of the Dirtiest Secrets of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement“
Naomi Klein, “The TPP Is a Grave Threat to Climate Action”
Public Citizen, “Case Studies – Investor-State Attacks on Public Interest Policies”