GreenNewTrade.org is a new website aimed at climate justice activists and the general public, describing past and current trade challenges to "Green New Deal–type policies", and calling for changes to trade rules. For Canadians, the most famous such international trade dispute occurred when Japan and the EU challenged the domestic content provisions in Ontario's Green Energy Act - and in 2013, the World Trade Organization ruled against Ontario. There have also been numerous challenges under the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) rules of NAFTA and the successor United States Canada Mexico Trade Agreement (USMCA) – the website gives the example of US coal mining company Westmoreland, which in 2018 challenged Alberta's planned phaseout of coal-fired power plants.
For an introduction to the issues, see Beyond NAFTA 2.0: A Trade Agenda for People and Planet, a report released in 2019 by some of the same groups behind this new website: the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Institute for Policy Studies, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York. A blog post at the Business and Human Rights Resources website describes GreenNewTrade.org .
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