Date:

16 Sep 2021

Content Type:

Article

The majority of the cases are being brought under the Energy Charter Treaty, and are being hosted within the International Centre for The Settlement of Investment Disputes, a branch of the World Bank.

Date:

3 Sep 2021

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Article

"[T]he European Court of Justice stated that EU energy companies will no longer be allowed to sue EU governments using the Energy Charter Treaty – throwing into doubt a number of ongoing billion-euro arbitrations."

Date:

12 Aug 2021

Content Type:

Report

Investigate Europe's Juliet Ferguson looks at how signing up to the Energy Charter Treaty could expose governments across the Global South to expensive lawsuits from corporate investors

Date:

2 Aug 2021

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Article

Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now looks at how investor-state dispute settlement clauses in trade and investment agreements allow corporations to challenge environmental regulations

Date:

30 Jul 2021

Content Type:

Article

Analysis of how the Energy Charter Treaty, which gives oil and gas companies a route to suing governments, is increasingly hindering climate policy reform

Date:

25 Jul 2021

Content Type:

Article

The UK oil company Rockhopper Exploration is suing Italy using the controversial ISDS mechanism within the Energy Charter Treaty to claim compensation after the Italian government banned new drilling near the Italian coast

Date:

6 Jul 2021

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Article

Statement signed by 401 worldwide civil society organisations asking their governments to exit the Energy Charter Treaty by COP26.

Date:

2 Jun 2021

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Article

An op-ed signed by 71 Members of the European Parliament calling for the EU and its member states to leave the Energy Charter Treaty.

Date:

1 Apr 2021

Content Type:

Report

The Energy Charter Treaty is an international treaty containing ISDS provisions that allow energy companies to sue host states for decisions that damage the value of their investment. In recent years, the ECT has become increasingly controversial – because of its potential to obstruct the transition from climate-wrecking fossil fuels towards renewable energy, to lock-in failed energy privatisations, and undermine affordable energy prices. But despite the growing controversy many countries, particularly in the global south, are in the process of joining the ECT.

Date:

16 Mar 2021

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Article

Date:

25 Feb 2021

Content Type:

Article

The little-known Energy Charter Treaty allows foreign investors to sue states if they feel treated unfairly by changes in energy legislation. This could become a massive threat to the EU and its member states in trying to achieve their climate targets.

Date:

9 Feb 2021

Content Type:

Article

Analysis of the relationship between the Energy Charter Treaty and the European Union. This blog looks at the options for the EU to either fix, leave or kill the problematic treaty that stymies climate action and gives energy investors power over governments.

Date:

5 Oct 2021

Content Type:

Report

A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

Date:

20 Sep 2021

Content Type:

Report

Paper from Jane Kelsey and Kinda Mohamedieh analysing efforts to reform ISDS clauses in international trade and investment agreements.

Date:

16 Sep 2021

Content Type:

Article

The majority of the cases are being brought under the Energy Charter Treaty, and are being hosted within the International Centre for The Settlement of Investment Disputes, a branch of the World Bank.

Date:

12 Aug 2021

Content Type:

Report

Investigate Europe's Juliet Ferguson looks at how signing up to the Energy Charter Treaty could expose governments across the Global South to expensive lawsuits from corporate investors

Date:

5 Aug 2021

Content Type:

Article

Pakistan has decided to terminate 23 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with different countries in order to avoid international arbitration with foreign firms on commercial contracts.

Date:

2 Aug 2021

Content Type:

Article

Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now looks at how investor-state dispute settlement clauses in trade and investment agreements allow corporations to challenge environmental regulations

Date:

25 Jul 2021

Content Type:

Article

The UK oil company Rockhopper Exploration is suing Italy using the controversial ISDS mechanism within the Energy Charter Treaty to claim compensation after the Italian government banned new drilling near the Italian coast

Date:

23 Jul 2021

Content Type:

Article

An assessment of recent news regarding national approaches to Investor-State Dispute Settlements in trade and investment agreements - with Pakistan rejecting the system but Ecuador rejoining the ISCID.

Date:

5 Jul 2021

Content Type:

Article

TC Energy Corporation, who were behind the cancelled Keystone pipeline, have filed for compensation under a free trade provision (ISDS) that allows investors to sue governments if they impede profits.

Date:

4 Jul 2021

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Article

The Canadian company behind the now-abandoned Keystone XL pipeline is attempting to sue the USA for $15bn under the ISDS clause in the NAFTA trade agreement

Date:

24 Jun 2021

Content Type:

Report

A report from the Transnational Institute and Public Services International arguing that ISDS mechanisms are less independent and less impartial than domestic courts, and that ISDS tribunals actively undermine the justice system.

Date:

1 Jun 2021

Content Type:

Article

Patricia Ranald explores the dangers of ISDS clauses in trade agreements after the news that such a clause is being discussed by UK and Australia trade negotiators.

Date:

16 Mar 2021

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Article

Date:

12 Jan 2021

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Article

Date:

1 Sep 2020

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Report

As the UK adopts its own independent trade policy for the first time in nearly 50 years, the government will need to make a number of policy decisions to shape the kind of agreements it wants to have with partner countries. This briefing note gives an overview of investment protection provisions – one of the key areas where policy will need to be developed – and sets out the options available to the UK.

Date:

10 Jun 2020

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Article

Date:

10 Jun 2020

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Article

Date:

1 Jun 2019

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Report

Report from Friends of the Earth Europe, the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory, looking at ISDS clauses in trade and investment agreements via ten case studies picked from around the world.

Date:

1 Apr 2019

Content Type:

Report

A briefing paper from the Colombia Center on Sustainable Investment looking at the alternatives to investor-state dispute settlement clauses in trade agreements.