climate
Council of Foreign Relations | 10-Jul-2025
Although fossil fuel phase-outs are critical to achieving global climate goals, protections granted through Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions to foreign-owned coal operations expose governments to costly litigation, threatening to thwart state action.
The Edge Malaysia | 9-Jul-2025
Malaysian CSOs have urged the government to reject the inclusion of the ISDS clause in the RCEP agreement. They warn that ISDS allows foreign investors to sue governments over policies safeguarding public interests like health, workers, and the environment, potentially leading to costly legal battles and large payouts detrimental to national budgets.
keywords:
agriculture | farmers | food ,
climate ,
environment ,
health ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
labour | workers’ rights ,
RCEP
SOMO | 2-Jul-2025
How Shell and ExxonMobil use arbitration to offload the costs of closing the Netherlands’ largest gas field.
E3G | 2-Jun-2025
By protecting fossil fuel investments, investment treaties with ISDS are undermining the global energy transition. This briefing explores three alternative tools that may protect foreign investors from regulatory changes.
TNI - RadioUChile | 28-May-2025
¿Cómo los acuerdos comerciales afectan nuestra soberanía en la transición energética? En esta cápsula, exploramos el vínculo entre tratados de libre comercio y extractivismo.
Global Development Policy Center | 28-May-2025
To accomplish the removal of ISDS efficiently, G7 countries, or some subset of them, could lead the development of a plurilateral agreement to alter all IIAs amongst the parties that sign up to it.
Veblen | 23-May-2025
The Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”), the most widely used investment treaty, has become highly controversial for enabling investors to challenge national policies aimed at achieving climate goals through its ISDS mechanism, leading to a phenomenon known as “regulatory chill.
Novethic | 23-May-2025
Le Traité sur la charte de l’énergie, qui permet aux investisseurs d’attaquer en justice les gouvernements dès lors que ces derniers modifient leurs politiques énergétiques, est encore bien vigoureux.
Power Shift | 20-May-2025
A Swiss public company, Azienda Elettrica Ticinese, is demanding compensation in an international arbitration tribunal for Germany‘s coal phase-out.
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga | 2-May-2025
Aussie mining billionaire sues Australia for A$420 billion... Yes, this could happen in Aotearoa!!!
keywords:
Australia ,
climate ,
environment ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining ,
New Zealand
