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Hi John,
We’re winning… the Energy Charter Treaty is on its last legs.
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, just announced the country is exiting the climate-wrecking treaty, which lets fossil fuel companies sue governments to block their climate action. Two days before that the Dutch climate minister announced the Netherlands is leaving, saying the ECT is not in line with climate goals. The week before that it was Spain. And in August, Poland.
We’ve been part of a network of campaigners and activists across Europe fighting to expose the dangers of the ECT, get a critical mass of European countries to leave and cause the whole thing to crumble. Now we can see this beginning to happen before our eyes!
It’s thanks to all your tireless efforts campaigning together, alongside our European allies: we’ve made a little-known trade agreement and its secretive corporate courts so toxic that a stampede of countries are tripping over themselves out of the door.
While the UK is distracted by myopic political shambles, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland have woken up to the risk the ECT poses to them making good on their climate commitments.
** Time for the UK to exit
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Whoever is appointed to head up the UK's energy, climate and trade policies next, the ECT will continue to hold the government's climate action to ransom.
So we need to keep up the pressure in these last few weeks, to get the UK on board the rush for the exit. In November’s annual ECT conference, remaining members will be trying to pass a sham modernisation of the deal.
It’s the final push to reject this greenwash, mobilise against the ECT and get the UK to follow other countries out the door. You can help us spread the word by sharing our brand new campaign video!
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** London protest on 4 November
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We’ll be outside the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in London next Friday (4 November) to make the message clear: ministers may come and go, but the threat of the ECT continues to hang over us. No to more fossil fuel extraction, here and everywhere - time to #ExitECT ([link removed][0]=AZV_EnZuZuJYQeCXjCLaqVoyk_Arh92PVdOg7XrpsBjMxKl0DFERCJoZekMTaIe2NULKoMdmT9HIPtGhDGaKmgjrDR4DE1YH087xocJsdHnQhwGuKiDlr29IPNLSsjnIveM&__tn__=q&mc_cid=edb35d9445&mc_eid=UNIQID) . See more about the plans for the action ([link removed]) and join us if you can!
Thank you for being with us in this fight.
In solidarity,
Cleodie Rickard,
Trade campaigner at Global Justice Now
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