John,

The Amazon rainforest is burning. Forests are being razed for beef, soy, and industrial agriculture – and the EU is about to make it even worse.

Right now, the European Commission is RACING to approve and sign the disastrous EU-Mercosur trade deal – a toxic pact with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay that will supercharge deforestation, worsen the climate crisis, and trample Indigenous rights.

If the deal goes through, it will lock in a Bolsonaro-era dream to destroy the Amazon for cheap beef, soy, wood, and other products. We can’t let it happen.

The good news? We still have a short window to stop it. But we need to act fast. So here’s the plan: we could launch a European “toxic tour” in key countries like France, mobilising communities, launching investigations, and pushing leaders to block ratification before a critical vote just WEEKS away.

Opposition from French farmers stopped this deal before and it isn’t too late to stop this death sentence for the Amazon again, but it’s going to take all of us to do it.

Can you urgently chip in to fuel our work to defend the Amazon and the natural world?

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The trade deal between the EU and Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) would allow commodities from those countries to be fast-tracked into Europe, fattening corporate pockets on both sides.

Negotiations on the deal have dragged on for decades, stalled by countries like France warning that their farmers would be undercut by cheap imports from nations with lower costs and looser rules on the environment, health, animal welfare, pesticides, and labour.

But the Commission has proposed a workaround to get the opposition on board and a vote could now be just WEEKS away. Sources say the President of the European Commission desperately wants to sign the agreement to great fanfare on December 5 in Brazil at the Mercosur summit, giving us just a few weeks to ramp up the pressure on key countries like France to block this nightmare deal.

Time is short. The Commission is moving fast, and lobbyists for agribusiness are pushing hard. But if we raise enough now, we could counter them with a powerful people’s campaign that politicians can’t ignore. 

We’re already working with partners to mobilize in huge numbers in key countries like France – attracting the attention of decision-makers and the media. And now we need to race to release hard-hitting research and investigations to expose how the deal will devastate the Amazon and undercut climate action. 

It’s not too late to stop this deadly deal, protect the Amazon, and keep fighting to defend our natural world. But it’s going ot take ALL of us to do it. Can you rush a donation to help? 

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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the planet.

 This is a fight we know how to win. Remember TTIP? When the EU and US were on the verge of signing an agreement that would’ve flooded Europe with hormone-treated meat and GMO produce, our movement joined a three-million-strong citizens’ movement to stop it – and got the deal called off.