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[ [link removed] ]Amazon rainforest burning and enveloped in smoke

John,

More than a quarter of the Amazon has already been decimated. And now
Europe is about to sign a deal to import the cheap beef, soy and wood
fuelling its destruction.

But we still have a shot at stopping it.

Already several countries, like Austria, have rejected the deal, and if
big, influential Germany does so too, it could be the death knell of this
Amazon-killing idea. But right now the German climate and agriculture
ministers are on the fence.

That’s where we come in. These ministers are from the Green Party – they
should be nowhere near this environmental horror show. And if we can show
their reputations will be dust if they back this terrible deal, we could
still stop it before it's too late.

If everyone reading this chips in the cost of a coffee, we’ll have enough
to launch an all-out campaign in these minister's home cities – plastering
the walls with thousands of posters, driving mobile billboards around the
streets and running polls to show how much the German public want this
trade deal blocked. This is urgent – the EU Commission president is
meeting Latin American governments in a couple of weeks and wants to
announce progress on the agreement then. Can you chip in to stop this
Amazon-killing deal?



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Beef, soy and other products have played a devastating role in the
Amazon’s recent history – driving illegal slash-and-burn clearing of vast
tracts of rainforest that has trashed precious ecosystems and put the
whole planet in peril.

The so-called Mercosur pact would throw petrol on the fire, lowering
duties on beef, soybean and other exports to the EU from Brazil,
Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. And it would boost the global trade in
dangerous pesticides too.

It’s incredible that these Green ministers aren’t already vigorously
opposing this. But the German car industry stands to make huge profits
from Mercosur – and so they’ve agreed to look the other way while the
Amazon burns. That’s why it’s so important we make as big a noise as
possible now.

John, if we work together, we can make a real difference –
unleashing a torrent of ads and on-the-ground actions to show that the
public elected these Green politicians to stand up for the planet, not
plunder it.

Time is running out to save the Amazon from even more corporate greed. Can
you chip in to help?



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  Thanks for all that you do,  
Olivia, Nabil and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]EU-Mercosur: A nightmare for nature
Greenpeace. 1 March 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Final push for EU-Mercosur deal, amid deforestation fears
EU Observer. 7 June 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Von der Leyen vows to conclude EU-Mercosur deal by year-end
Politico. 12 June 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Germany champions Mercosur deal despite agriculture woes
Euractiv. 17 March 2023.

 

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