climate
UNN | 23-Jan-2026
The Arbitration Tribunal in Stockholm rejected the claim of the foreign investor Modus Energy International B.V. regarding changes to the "green tariff".
Trade Justice Movement | 22-Dec-2025
A group of 56 UK-affiliated academics has written to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband MP, warning that Investor-State Dispute Settlement poses a serious risk to the UK’s ability to take effective climate action.
| 17-Dec-2025
La protección de la Amazonía es un tema central de la 30.ª Conferencia de las Partes (COP30) en Belém, Brasil. Sin embargo, los esfuerzos para garantizar su defensa corren el riesgo de perder financiación debido al mecanismo de solución de controversias entre inversionistas y Estados (ISDS).
AFTINET | 17-Dec-2025
The tribunal in the first Clive Palmer ISDS case, which claimed $300 billion from the Australian government, has published its decision 10 weeks after it was announced by the government and more than a year after the original hearings.
La Silla Vacía | 6-Dec-2025
Proteger la Amazonía requerirá limitar la actividad económica destructiva, pero la Solución de Controversias entre Inversionistas y Estados implica que tales acciones conllevan el riesgo de costosas demandas. Este mecanismo otorga a los inversionistas extranjeros—tales como empresas petroleras y operando en la Amazonia—un derecho especial para demandar a los gobiernos en tribunales arbitrales.
The Guardian | 1-Dec-2025
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts
Trade Justice Movement | 26-Nov-2025
The resource contains visual summaries to help break down the controversial Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism built into many trade and investment agreements.
AFTINET | 26-Nov-2025
As the UN climate conference began in Belem, Brazil last week, an official UN report explicitly called out Investor-State Dispute Settlement in trade agreements as a systemic barrier to financing climate action in developing countries.
Both Ends | 26-Nov-2025
COP30 showed once again that climate policy cannot succeed while outdated investment treaties give corporations the power to punish ambition.
Leah Sullivan | 21-Nov-2025
Civil society groups are calling on the Government to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and reject ISDS, as a new threat emerges over the government’s refusal to grant an exploration licence to an oil and gas company.