Transforming the European Green Deal into a Global Green Deal – the role of Fair Trade

This paper argues why it is important to transform the existing European Green Deal (EGD) into a Global Green Deal (GGD). While the EGD was initially received as a groundbreaking policy framework, it is necessary to include the views and potential negative impact for the Global South and create a collective international endeavour towards global sustainability.
There are too many negative social and environmental externalities - spillovers - towards the Global South that prevent the EGD to be recognised as a legitimate EU Sustainable Development Agenda. There should be an equal footing in terms of adequate policies, objectives, rights and responsibilities between European and non-European countries, hence the proposed new approach towards a Global Green Deal to intertwine the global dimension with the current European policies.
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