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Instead, it includes the non-binding assertion that transition to a low-emissions economy requires collective action, but it requires nothing to require such action—and again action is the key here—or to prevent the TPP from increasing climate-disrupting emissions. The TPP environment chapter also fails to require TPP countries to adhere to their UNFCCC commitments, despite the fact that all the TPP countries are party to the climate convention.
Finally, it offers no protection from TPP rules that would allow foreign investors and governments to challenge climate and clean energy policies in unaccountable trade tribunals. It includes no safeguards for green jobs programs that could run afoul of the procurement rules or fossil fuel export restrictions that could violate TPP rules on trade in goods, energy-saving labels that could be construed as technical barriers to trade, or to adjustment mechanisms that could conflict with TPP rules, despite boosting the efficacy of domestic greenhouse gas mitigation, or an array of climate change policies that could be challenged by foreign fossil fuel corporations as violations of the TPP special rights for foreign investors. With no protection for such policies from the TPP's polluter-friendly rules, the TPP could not only spur increased climate-disrupting emissions, but also inhibit domestic efforts to curb such emissions.
We must therefore reject the TPP in order to avoid its negative impacts on action to mitigate climate change.