We think there has been an effort over the past 25 years to try to integrate environmental and social conditions into free trade agreements. We think they have historically not gone nearly far enough and that there has been a tendency for those trade agreements to trump legitimate environmental and social concerns. The Climate Action Network is not categorically opposed to free trade agreements—I wouldn't say that at all.
At the same time, we are concerned that there are often provisions within them that end up trumping perfectly legitimate environmental ends. So it's really just a question of making sure there's a balance between having the option to protect legitimate environmental ends for ourselves and future generations and healthy communities, and encouraging a fully functioning and dynamic economy.