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Missing from the climate talks: Corporate powers to sue governments over extractives policies
Inequality.org | 2-Nov-2021
Allowing oil, mining, and gas companies to continue to file expensive lawsuits over environmental regulations could undermine whatever agreements might be reached in the COP26 in Glasgow.
keywords: climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Big Coal tapping obscure treaty could chill green revolution
Bloomberg | 29-Oct-2021
Coal plant owners are using this little-known mechanism to try and recoup billions from governments who are forcing them to shut down polluting plants
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
CJEU extends Achmea to ad hoc arbitration agreements identical to intra-EU BITs’ arbitration clause
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 29-Oct-2021
Meanwhile, the European Commission is working on a legislative initiative aiming at improving the protections offered to intra-EU investment under EU law.
keywords: EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Fossil fuel companies claiming 18bn against government climate action in secret courts
Global Justice Now | 28-Oct-2021
Courts allow big polluters to sue governments into “a state of climate paralysis”, campaigners say.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
COP26 : Cinq entreprises de l’énergie réclament 18 milliards de dollars aux Etats en raison de leurs politiques climatiques
Attac | 28-Oct-2021
Une nouvelle publication révèle que cinq entreprises de l’énergie poursuivent des États pour leur politique climatique en leur réclamant 18 milliards de dollars de compensation.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Reality check on curbing climate change — trade agreements
The Nelson Daily | 28-Oct-2021
Rules accepted under various trade and investment agreements often benefit destructive, extractive industries to the detriment of national and international climate goals and ambitions.
keywords: climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
El TJUE prohíbe arbitraje de inversiones ad hoc entre partes de la UE
CIAR Global | 27-Oct-2021
El juez nacional estará obligado a anular el laudo dictado sobre un acuerdo de arbitraje celebrado ad hoc que infringe el Derecho de la Unión. Concluye la nota emitida por el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea sobre la Sentencia en un procedimiento entre la sociedad luxemburguesa PL Holdings y Polonia.
keywords: EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Del sueño solar de España a la pesadilla Legal
TNI | 26-Oct-2021
En los últimos 10 años el Estado español ha recibido más demandas de arbitraje de inversión que cualquier otro Estado. Con 50 casos en total, es hoy el segundo país en el mundo con más demandas en tribunales arbitrales internacionales.
keywords: ECT , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Spain
Summary to empower BoI for renegotiating BITs gathering dust
Business Recorder | 25-Oct-2021
Under the new template, federal government would not be liable for private investor disputes. Mediation would be made compulsory, while foreign arbitrators would be decided in advance through consensus.
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , Pakistan
Montagne d’Or : l’arbitrage d’investissement au secours de Nordgold
Collectif Stop Tafta | 25-Oct-2021
L’investisseur russe porteur du projet minier réclame 4 milliards € de réparation à la France.
keywords: environment , France , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining