18.01.2014 - 02:16 [ New Matilda ]

The TPP Greenwashes Dirty Politics

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a highly secretive and expansive free trade agreement being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries, including Australia and New Zealand, has been promoted as a boon to the environment. But the text of the Environment Chapter of the agreement, which has been negotiated in secret until it was was released this week by WikiLeaks, appears to be little more than an exercise in greenwashing.