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The EU and Mercosur are celebrating their latest trade agreement as a win-win, but Indigenous and climate activists see it as a major threat against biodiversity with irreversible risks to Amazonia and the future of the planet. While the agreement claims to operate under a value-based trade agenda that protects labor rights and the environment, Latin American nature defenders warn that it will expand the agribusiness frontier in Amazonia, driving deforestation, land grabs, greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity loss. Together with FIU's Latin American & Caribbean Center and the EU Center directors, scholar-activist Manuela Picq discusses the implications of the new EU-Mercosur agreement for Amazonia and nature defenders

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