"What is alarming is the lack of recognition that the very rules and policies espoused by the WTO are at the core of the global economic and planetary ecological crisis, namely, to prioritise growth based on orthodox economics and unrealistic assumptions. The type of policies and rules promoted by the multilateral trading system ... continue to have a devastating impact on jobs, poor people’s quality of life and the planet’s resources." Michelle Pressend takes aim at the seventh WTO Ministerial Conference.

Read her provocative analysis in full.

Read the EJN-supported letter to the WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy.

Debate the issues: Are the rich to blame for climate change - and should they pay?