Climate Peace Clause
What you should know
Enacting effective environmental policies to address the climate crisis is one of the world’s most urgent tasks – but international trade rules pose a serious threat to achieving climate goals. Rulings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have weakened the Clean Air and Endangered Species Acts, and have forced countries to spend millions of dollars defending against attacks on mining, land use, and energy regulations. Governments must sign binding commitments not to use trade and investment rules to challenge climate policies. Now is the time to put people and the planet above corporate profit.