Articles in English
Sarajevo Times | 3-Jun-2025
The issue stems from a €67 million debt owed by the Ugljevik Mine and Thermal Power Plant to Slovenia’s state-owned electricity company, Elektrogospodarstvo Slovenije.
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.
Newsday | 28-May-2025
US oil giant ConocoPhillips has been permitted to register an over US$10 billion arbitration award against Venezuela in Trinidad and Tobago for the expropriation of its oil assets by the South American country nearly two decades ago.
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.
IISD | 27-May-2025
As investment treaties face increased resistance from all quarters, there have been renewed calls to prioritize contract-based arbitrations pursuant to arbitration clauses in investment agreements negotiated between foreign investors and host states.
Reuters | 26-May-2025
Spanish gas grid operator Enagas said the World Bank’s ICSID raised the amount the company is entitled to be paid in an arbitration process over a pipeline it built in the country.
Herbert Smith Freehills | 26-May-2025
Earlier this year, a split ICSID Tribunal found Guatemala liable to pay USD 68.5 million in damages plus interest to Panamanian company Energia y Renovación Holding.
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.
Yahoo | 21-May-2025
UK-based gold exploration company Panthera Resources, through its Australian subsidiary Indo Gold, has filed a claim for damages totalling $1.58bn against the Republic of India, alleging breaches of a bilateral investment treaty.
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.
