The new South has a cover story on why developing countries should also be eligible for compensation by transnational companies responsible for environmental disasters. The recent $20 bil fund set up by BP for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico should be a model for companies to compensate for disasters such as in Bhopal, the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Niger Delta.

The Bulletin also focuses on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), a TRIPS-Plus treaty being negotiated by 11 members that would be harmful to health and consumer interests and to developing countries. The Bulletin analyses ACTA and carries statements by India, China and Brazil at the WTO on why TRIPS-Plus enforcement is harmful.

Other articles make comments on the austerity policies of developed countries, and on why a climate deal needs to be based on equity in “carbon space”

To access the whole South Bulletin, please click here

To access individual articles, please see below:

• Pay Developing Nations For Eco-Disasters
• Will ‘Austerity’ Lead To A New Recession?
• Climate Deal Needs Equity In Carbon Space
• IP Enforcement through Anti-Counterfeit Laws: The ACTA Negotiations and Their Implications
• Why “IPR Enforcement” in ACTA & FTAs Harm the South
• The Problems With the “TRIPS plus” Enforcement Trend: China’s View
• Brazil’s Concerns on ACTA
• Berkeley Declaration on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Access to Medicines