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New AFTINET explainer: why ISDS is a threat to climate action
AFTINET | 15-Jan-2025
This explainer sheds light on how Clive Palmer is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions in trade agreements to claim up to $420 billion from the Australian government.
keywords: Australia , climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Sarama réclame 115 millions $ au Burkina Faso pour retrait de permis minier
Ecofin | 13-Dec-2024
Le différend entre Sarama et le Burkina Faso a commencé en 2023 avec le retrait d’un permis d’exploration contrôlé depuis 12 ans par la société canadienne.
keywords: Australia , Burkina Faso , Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Sarama Resources submits request for arbitration against Burkina Faso
Sarama | 13-Dec-2024
Formal commencement of international arbitration proceedings for significant damages claim.
keywords: Australia , Burkina Faso , Canada , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Australian mining firm trumps Poland in arbitration
iclg | 9-Oct-2024
Invoking the Australia-Poland bilateral investment treaty, together with the Energy Charter Treaty, Green X has been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars over a thwarted mining project.
keywords: Australia , ECT , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Poland
Clive Palmer’s $300bn claim ‘absurd’, says solicitor-general
The Australian | 17-Sep-2024
The solicitor-general has pilloried Clive Palmer’s $300bn legal claim against Australia as weak, absurd and demonstrably in­adequate.
keywords: Australia , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Tanzania agrees to pay Indiana Resources Sh. 237 Billion over ICSID disputes
The Chanzo | 29-Jul-2024
Tanzania and an Australian-based company Indiana Resources Limited have settled for USD 90 million.
keywords: Australia , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Tanzania
Australian legal experts call for swift removal of ISDS
AFTINET | 12-Jul-2024
62 Australian lawyers and legal scholars have issued an open letter urging the Australian government to swiftly implement its policy of excluding Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions from current and future trade and investment agreements.
keywords: Australia , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The tide is turning against the global court for corporations – ISDS
PSI | 8-May-2024
After a decade long struggle by PSI and affiliates against trade rules that put corporate profits before people, victory is in sight!
keywords: actions | resistance , Australia , ECT , investor-state disputes | ISDS , video
Sign the petition to stop investors like Clive Palmer from suing our government for billions over climate change policies
AFTINET | 14-Mar-2024
Some international trade agreements allow foreign investors to sue the Australian government if a change in law or policy reduces their profits, even if the change protects public health or the environment.
keywords: actions | resistance , Australia , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Tanzania’s attempt to strike out Indiana’s compensation fails to score
Stockhead | 12-Feb-2024
Indiana Resources is closer to recovering its historical sunk investment for the unlawful expropriation of the Ntaka Hill nickel sulphide project after the ICSID struck out most of Tanzania’s grounds for requesting the annulment of the award.
keywords: Australia , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , natural resources , Tanzania