WTO+20 Environmental Issues and Trade Workshop
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2019-12-15

We recorded two workshops from the Dec. 7th WTO 20th Anniversary event.  This one features Selden Prentice from 350 Seattle with Manuel Pérez Rocha of the Institute for Policy Studies and includes a short video address by Bill McKibben.  Selden Prentice is an Environmental Lawyer, and 350 Seattle Policy & Economics Workgroup facilitator who worked for the EPA.  Manuel Pérez Rocha is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and an Associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam.  Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist, and activist and a co-founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a common audience about global warming.

This workshop focuses on the horrors of the Investor State Dispute Settlement process, the transnational kangaroo court system established in multilateral trade agreements which enables foreign investors and multinational corporations to sue governments for lost profits when they protect the environmental, labor, farmers, or human rights.  Prentice is an expert on what's called the Alternative Dispute Resolution system. 

Thanks to the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Town Hall Seattle

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