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  1.    
  2. Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) -
  3. Environment Consolidated Text ::
  4.  
  5. https://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/
  6.  
  7.  Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the
  8. secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific
  9. Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding
  10. Chairs' Report. The TPP transnational legal regime
  11. would cover 12 countries initially and encompass 40
  12. per cent of global GDP and one-third of world trade.
  13. The Environment Chapter has long been sought by
  14. journalists and environmental groups. The released
  15. text dates from the Chief Negotiators' summit in
  16. Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013.
  17.  
  18.  The Environment Chapter covers what the Parties
  19. propose to be their positions on: environmental
  20. issues, including climate change, biodiversity and
  21. fishing stocks; and trade and investment in 'environmental'
  22. goods and services. It also outlines how to resolve
  23. enviromental disputes arising out of the treaty's
  24. subsequent implementation. The draft Consolidated
  25. Text was prepared by the Chairs of the Environment
  26. Working Group, at the request of TPP Ministers at
  27. the Brunei round of the negotiations.
  28.  
  29.  When compared against other TPP chapters, the
  30. Environment Chapter is noteworthy for its absence
  31. of mandated clauses or meaningful enforcement measures.
  32. The dispute settlement mechanisms it creates are
  33. cooperative instead of binding; there are no required
  34. penalties and no proposed criminal sanctions. With
  35. the exception of fisheries, trade in 'environmental'
  36. goods and the disputed inclusion of other multilateral
  37. agreements, the Chapter appears to function as a
  38. public relations exercise.
  39.  
  40.  Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' publisher, stated:
  41. "Today's WikiLeaks release shows that the public
  42. sweetner in the TPP is just media sugar water.
  43. The fabled TPP environmental chapter turns out to
  44. be a toothless public relations exercise with no
  45. enforcement mechanism."
  46.  
  47.  The Chairs' Report of the Environment Working Group
  48. also shows that there are still significant areas of
  49. contention in the Working Group. The report claims
  50. that the draft Consolidated Text displays much
  51. compromise between the Parties already, but more
  52. is needed to reach a final text. The main areas of
  53. contention listed include the role of this agreement
  54. with respect to multilateral environmental agreements
  55. and the dispute resolution process.
  56.  
  57.  The documents date from 24 November 2013 ? the end
  58. of the Salt Lake City round. They were requested by
  59. the Ministers of the TPP after the August 2013 Brunei
  60. round. The Consolidated Text was designed to be a
  61. "landing zone" document to further the negotiations
  62. quickly and displays what the Chairs say is a good
  63. representation of all Parties' positions at the time.
  64. The WikiLeaks Consolidated Text and corresponding
  65. Chairs' Report show that there remains a lot of
  66. controversy and disagreement within the Working
  67. Group. The Consolidated Text published by WikiLeaks
  68. is not bracketed, as per the IP Chapter released
  69. in November 2013, as it is drafted by the Chairs
  70. of the Working Group at their responsibility.
  71. Instead, the accompanying Chairs' Report provides
  72. commentary on the draft Consolidated Text and is
  73. the equivalent of bracketed disagreements for the
  74. countries that have not agreed on certain Articles,
  75. and provides their positions.
  76.  
  77.  Current TPP negotiation member states are the United
  78. States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia,
  79. Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and
  80. Brunei. This is the third in the series of Secret
  81. Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) leaks
  82. published by WikiLeaks.
  83.  
  84. https://wikileaks.org/tpp2/static/pdf/tpp-treaty-environment-chapter.pdf
  85.  
  86. http://fleetupload.com/pz2l1d207aeq/tpp-treaty-environment-chapter.pdf

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