Podcasts about pia eberhardt

In a milestone win for civil society, the EU will withdraw from the climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty (or ECT). The ECT was designed in the 1990s to favour industry's interests, and was a powerful weapon to obstruct the kind of phaseout of fossil fuels needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. It should never have existed in the first place.In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Joana Louçã talks to Pia Eberhardt, former campaigner and researcher at CEO, and Lucía Bárcena, Project Coordinator at the  Transnational Institute, or TNI, to celebrate the decision of the EU to finally leave the Energy Charter Treaty.WHO WE AREThis podcast is produced by CEO and Counter Balance. Both NGOs raise awareness on the importance of good governance in the EU by researching issues like lobbying of large and powerful industries, corporate capture of decision making, corruption, fraud, human rights violations in areas like Big Tech, agro-business, biotech & chemical companies, the financial sector & public investment banks, trade, energy & climate, scientific research and much more…You can find us wherever you listen to your podcasts. Stay tuned for more independent and in-depth information that concerns every EU citizen!

In this new episode of this podcast we put spotlights on the European Union as an economical superpower and how the EU regulates - or not - corporate power. The European way of doing (geo)politics is often described as ‘soft power'. But the impact of European businesses in other parts of the world – as well as in the EU itself - is often not so soft; As corporate behaviour often leads to human rights violations and destruction of ecosystems. So how is the EU dealing with issues like environmental justice, social rights and corporate power in a time when globalisation is being reviewed critically? Because what big European corporations and multinationals are contributing to along their global values chains, is often in stark contrast with the so called ‘European values'. Think for example the connections of the meat industry and supermarkets with the destruction in the Amazon forest. Think people in Bangladesh, risking their lives in unsafe factories for the European textile industry. Or think farmers in Nigeria who basically lost their farmlands and livelihoods due to operations of fossil fuel company Shell.     In this episode we talk to Jill McArdle, Corporate accountability campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe; She explains what is going on behind the scenes with the announced European law that potentially could hold European companies accountable for what their sub-contractors are doing in Bangladesh, the Amazon or Nigeria. This law has great potential for victims of wrong doing by European companies abroad. She explains tactics and arguments of corporate lobbies against this new law; This corporate lobby was described in a recent report called “Off the Hook?” published by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) and Friends of the Earth Europe. The new EU law on due diligence is expected for October this year. We also listen to CEO-researcher Pia Eberhardt who uncovered another massive lobby campaign in a new report called “Conquering European courts”, which is about exactly the opposite: make the EU to propose new legislation, giving more and new legal powers to corporations, which they could use to undermine public interest regulations.  Analysing dozens of documents obtained through freedom of information requests, the report reveals how banks like German Commerzbank, lobby groups like the Association of Large French Companies, BusinessEurope as well as corporate lawyers and lobby consultancies are pushing for a new legal regime that would enable industry to bypass national courts when settling disputes with EU member states. Big business' key demand is a new EU court for corporations, as well as substantive rights, which could ultimately put governments off regulating in the public interest. This new legislative proposal is expected for November this year. This podcast is produced by CEO and Counter Balance. Both NGOs raise awareness on the importance of good governance in the European Union, by researching issues like lobbying of large and powerful industries, corporate capture of decision making, corruption, fraud, human rights violations in areas like agro-business, biotech & chemical companies, the financial sector & public investment banks, trade, energy&climate, scientific research and much more…You can find us on iTunes, Spotify & Buzzsprout. Stay tuned for more independent and in-depth information that concerns every EU-citizen!

In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio we dive into one of the biggest examples of ‘cognitive dissonance' in recent history. Every (European) policymaker knows by now that fossil fuels should stay in the ground, but yet they keep defending the EU's membership of a treaty that defends fossil fuel investments: the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).We'll be talking with Pia Eberhardt , campaigner and expert on international trade from CEO, who explains the ins and outs of this strange creature and why she is campaigning to force the EU to withdraw from the ECT. In only one week almost a quarter of a million signed a petition to ask for this, which you can still sign here.Take action to end the climate-killing Energy Charter Treaty | Corporate Europe ObservatoryThe scientists of the IPCC told us we have ten years to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore the European Union has declared climate policy the alpha and omega via it's so called Green Deal. Also the new US administration and many other governments around the world claim to take the climate urgency very serious.Now, taking climate change serious basically means that to tackle this crisis we need to , as of today, start keeping fossil fuels in the ground as much as possible. Taking it serious means decentralising energy production and using renewables and energy saving. Taking it serious means that governments need to design policies that tackle climate change, not promote it.So knowing this: why is there still a global treaty designed by Europe that basically does the opposite: a treaty that punishes or threatens those governments, also European ones, that want to phase out fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy? Via this ECT governments that phase out coal, end gas production, or stop oil pipelines can be sued by corporations in private courts and be held liable for billions in damages.Early March will be the start of political negotiations on reforming the ECT; For Pia and other activists it is clear that the ECT is beyond repair and that EU governments and the European Commission should pull out of this climate killing treaty and stop its expansion to even more countries. Pia will be explaining the origins of the Energy Charter Treaty, how it undermines the clean energy transition and how it protects hundreds of billions of investments in Fossil infrastructure. Can countries get out of the ECT and what about a so called Zombie clause?Both CEO and Counter Balance raise awareness on the importance of good governance in the European Union, by researching issues like lobbying of large and powerful industries, corporate capture of decision making, corruption, fraud, human rights violations in areas like agro-business, biotech & chemical companies, the financial sector & public investment banks, trade, energy & climate, scientific research and much more…You can find us on iTunes, Spotify & Buzzsprout. Stay tuned for more independent and in-depth information that concerns every EU-citizen!

Learn about the secret weapon Canadian mining companies are using to extract money from developing countries when environmental measures, Indigenous rights and community resistance create democratic roadblocks to their extracting oil, gas and minerals. Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an increasingly controversial but still overlooked part of Canada's free trade agenda. The Trudeau government has pulled NAFTA's ISDS system out of the new deal with Trump, the USMCA, because of its negative impact on democracy. But Canada continues to maintain the corporate-biased arbitration system in dozens of trade and investment treaties with developing countries where, we must conclude, democratic institutions and environmental stewardship are seen as a nuisance. CCPA Monitor editor Stuart Trew interviews CCPA researcher Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Mining Watch Canada campaigner Kirsten Francescone and Corporate Europe Observatory campaigner/researcher Pia Eberhardt about their recent work on ISDS and the prospects for eliminating it globally.

Who gets water and what does it cost? Should it even cost anything? A new report looks at what restricts access to water and the only real solution to address it. PLUS, as floods continue to pound huge swaths of the US, here's another reason to fear the storm surge (hint: snakes!) Pia Eberhardt wants you to know about the Energy Charter Treaty, a trade agreement that encompasses almost 25% of the world's countries and is on the hunt for more. https://www.energy-charter-dirty-secrets.org/

TTIP – Kann mir das mal jemand erklären? Campusradio Kassel tut es. Warum gehen die Leute auf die Straße? Ein Interview mit Pia Eberhardt, ehemalige Studentin an der Uni Kassel, die es heute mit ihrer Organisation CEO gegen TTIP aufnimmt. Stattgefunden hat das Gespräch am Rande der Aktionskonferenz zu TTIP im Februar 2016 an der Uni Kassel. Unter http://campusradio-kassel.de/aktuelles/ findet ihr Bilder von der Konferenz.

TTIP – Kann mir das mal jemand erklären? Campusradio Kassel tut es. Warum gehen die Leute auf die Straße? Ein Interview mit Pia Eberhardt, ehemalige Studentin an der Uni Kassel, die es heute mit ihrer Organisation CEO gegen TTIP aufnimmt. Stattgefunden hat das Gespräch am Rande der Aktionskonferenz zu TTIP im Februar 2016 an der Uni Kassel. Unter http://campusradio-kassel.de/aktuelles/ findet ihr Bilder von der Konferenz.

Sendung vom 06.09.2016 - Pokémon-Go – Datenkrake reloaded? Wenn Apps *alles* wissen wollen – Ein Beitrag mit Hörspielcharakter - Skripted Reality: Wie weit kann Fernsehen gehen? Vorgeschriebene Drehbücher für Sendungen, die authetisch wirken sollen – Wie ist das Format entstanden? Was sagen Befürworter*innen, was Kritiker*innen? - TTIP-Großdemonstrationen am 17. September in sieben Städten – Warum gehen die Leute auf die Straße? Ein Interview mit Pia Eberhardt, ehemalige Studentin an der Uni Kassel, die es heute mit ihrer Organisation CEO gegen TTIP aufnimmt Enthält Musik von Dag Reinbott / www.terrasound.de

Sendung vom 06.09.2016 - Pokémon-Go – Datenkrake reloaded? Wenn Apps *alles* wissen wollen – Ein Beitrag mit Hörspielcharakter - Skripted Reality: Wie weit kann Fernsehen gehen? Vorgeschriebene Drehbücher für Sendungen, die authetisch wirken sollen – Wie ist das Format entstanden? Was sagen Befürworter*innen, was Kritiker*innen? - TTIP-Großdemonstrationen am 17. September in sieben Städten – Warum gehen die Leute auf die Straße? Ein Interview mit Pia Eberhardt, ehemalige Studentin an der Uni Kassel, die es heute mit ihrer Organisation CEO gegen TTIP aufnimmt Enthält Musik von Dag Reinbott / www.terrasound.de