climate
Follow The Money | 3-Sep-2025
Fossil fuel and mining companies are ramping up lawsuits against governments over environmental rules, using a controversial arbitration mechanism that critics say is skewed in industry’s favour and jeopardises global climate action.
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga | 1-Sep-2025
Recent agreements (negotiated in secret) also guarantee foreign corporations the rights to lobby against new laws in the name of “transparency”; guaranteed rights that iwi and hapū don’t have.
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climate ,
from the movements ,
indigenous peoples ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
New Zealand
Global Justice Now | 1-Sep-2025
Lawsuit is the first known case under Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) against the UK since 2006 proceeding to arbitration, and the first ISDS case brought against it in response to a climate policy.
bilaterals | 6-Aug-2025
Entre el 14 y 17 de Julio, en la ciudad de Choluteca (Honduras), más de 60 personas provenientes de 20 comunidades locales y representantes de organizaciones sociales nacionales e internacionales, se reunieron en el “Encuentro de comunidades afectadas por proyectos energéticos del sur de Honduras - Sin derechos humanos, no hay soberanía energética”. El objetivo fue visibilizar los impactos devastadores que muchos proyectos de “energía renovable” (principalmente fotovoltaicos), están generando en las comunidades locales. Al mismo tiempo, los y las participantes analizaron el asedio que el país enfrenta en tribunales internacionales, a causa de las demandas de arbitraje internacional que muchas empresas transnacionales dueñas de estos proyectos energéticos, han interpuesto en contra de Honduras.
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actions | resistance ,
climate ,
from the movements ,
Honduras ,
ICSID ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Alternatives Economiques | 23-Jul-2025
Les gouvernements successifs en France ont longtemps considéré le mécanisme de règlement des différends entre investisseurs et Etats (RDIE ou ISDS en anglais) comme un instrument utile pour les entreprises françaises à l’étranger et inoffensif pour l’Hexagone.
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climate ,
France ,
from the movements ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Veblen Institute | 17-Jul-2025
Study on the French network of bilateral investment treaties.
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climate ,
France ,
from the movements ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Institut Veblen | 17-Jul-2025
Etude sur le réseau français de traités bilatéraux d’investissements.
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climate ,
France ,
from the movements ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) | 15-Jul-2025
From July 14 to 16, the following meeting will be held in Honduras: Without Human Rights, There Is No Energy Sovereignty: A meeting of communities affected by energy projects in southern Honduras, a country facing an avalanche of international arbitration claims in secretive corporate courts, more than a third of which come from the renewable energy sector.
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climate ,
energy ,
from the movements ,
Honduras ,
human rights ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
TerraJusta | 14-Jul-2025
Del 14 al 16 de julio se realiza en Honduras el Encuentro: Sin derechos humanos, no hay soberanía energética: Encuentro de comunidades afectadas por proyectos energéticos en el sur de Honduras, país que se enfrenta a una avalancha de demandas de arbitraje internacional en tribunales corporativos secretos, de las cuales más de un tercio provienen del sector de las energías renovables.
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climate ,
energy ,
from the movements ,
Honduras ,
human rights ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
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.
