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Dangerous precedent: How an arbitration claim is jeopardising Germany‘s coal phase-out
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.
keywords: climate , energy , from the movements , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
El tratado sobre la Carta de la Energía, en el punto de mira de los grupos de presión en la UE
Euractiv | 17-Apr-2025
España se retiró del Tratado en mayo de 2024, tras considerar que ya no era compatible con los objetivos climáticos de la Unión Europea.
keywords: ECT , energy , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
German player to pursue multibillion-euro arbitration over Russia energy assets
Upstream | 2-Oct-2024
The “de-facto expropriation of Wintershall’s interests in Russian gas ventures was formalised in December 2023 when President Putin issued decrees invalidating gas sale contracts and transferring assets to Russian companies.
keywords: ECT , energy , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Russia
Klesch Group’s legal paradox
SOMO | 8-Mar-2024
Oil Refiner Klesch sues EU, Germany and Denmark over windfall profit tax while making record profits due to Ukraine invasion.
keywords: ECT , energy , EU , from the movements , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
EU, Germany and Denmark sued by oil firm over windfall tax
The Guardian | 20-Nov-2023
Officials fear secret courts will block climate action and divert billions into coffers of fossil fuel investors.
keywords: climate , Denmark , energy , EU , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Intra-EU investor-State ICSID arbitration: the German Federal Court of Justice’s new inadmissibility ruling
Lexology | 8-Aug-2023
On 27 July 2023, the German Federal Court of Justice (German FCJ) declared three intra-EU investor-State ICSID arbitrations inadmissible under German arbitration law given their incompatibility with EU law.
keywords: energy , EU , Germany , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Tribunal alemán declara la primacía del Derecho de la UE sobre laudos CIADI
CIAR Global | 3-Aug-2023
Un tribunal alemán ha declarado que los países miembros de la Unión Europea pueden eludir el arbitraje del Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a Inversiones (CIADI) presentado al amparo del Tratado de la Carta de la Energía (TCE).
keywords: ECT , energy , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
EU countries can challenge energy company arbitration claims in court
Energy Central News | 28-Jul-2023
Energy companies cannot force European governments into arbitration over compensation demands for investments hit by changing state climate goals, Germany’s highest civil court ruled.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Investors sue Costa Rica over hydroelectric plant’s expropriation
The Tico Times | 22-May-2023
Three German investors have filed an investment arbitration claim against Costa Rica for the expropriation of their land for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant.
keywords: Costa Rica , energy , environment , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Energy Charter Treaty: How it drove up the costs of the German coal phase-out
Power Shift | 16-Jan-2023
This briefing highlights the role the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has played in the German coal phase-out. It reveals that the ECT has influenced the coal phase-out in two important ways.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , from the movements , Germany , investor-state disputes | ISDS