environment
The Conversation | 19-Dec-2018
Westmoreland Coal is suing Canada because it did not receive a transition payment following Alberta’s coal phaseout plan. For the province, coal mining companies have no role to play in the energy transition.
The Guardian | 17-Dec-2018
Global corporations should not have special legal rights to undermine the policies of democratically elected governments.
KolectiVOZ Digital | 7-Dec-2018
Entrevista con Pablo Fajardo, abogado ambientalista de los demandantes a Chevron Texaco en Ecuador, quién nos cuenta sus actuales preocupaciones sobre el caso.
IISD | 28-Oct-2018
The selection of 10 key cases for this book has been made based on investment disputes that have implications for sustainable development, in its three dimensions: economic development, social development and environmental protection.
Le Monde | 27-Oct-2018
The documents highlight for the first time the pressure placed on the French parliament by a foreign company’s threat to use the ISDS mechanism.
Sierra Club | 1-Oct-2018
More outsourcing of pollution and jobs, handouts to corporate polluters, and climate denial
TeleSur | 28-Sep-2018
Pablo Fajardo, the lead lawyer for the communities who have been fighting for 25 years for compensation for the severe pollution in the amazon region, and Donald Moncayo, one of the coordinators of the organization that has led this campaign talk about the Chevron case.
El Telégrafo | 28-Sep-2018
Medio centenar de indígenas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana se concentraron este miércoles 26 de septiembre frente a la Procuraduría del Estado, en Quito, para exigir al Gobierno que rechace un laudo arbitral que condena al país y que pone en peligro el proceso de reparación de daños ambientales causados por la petrolera Chevron.
Derecho Internacional | 25-Sep-2018
Se trata de un caso llevado en el 2014 por un grupo de inversionistas extranjeros contra Costa Rica ante un tribunal auspiciado por el CIADI.
TeleSur | 21-Sep-2018
ICSID tribunal rules Costa Rica was in its right to stop a tourist construction project on the Pacific coast that violated environmental laws.