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Energy companies keep right to sue states in private courts, as treaty reforms blocked
Climate Home News | 16-Sep-2020
Negotiators have ruled out an overhaul of private courts that allow energy companies to sue national governments when climate change policies hurt their profits.
keywords: climate , ECT , energy , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
TPP-11 bajo la mira: Organizaciones vuelven a la carga ante implicancias en manejo de la pandemia y proceso constituyente
Radio UChile | 11-Sep-2020
Mientras expertos a nivel nacional e internacional advierten las consecuencias que ha tenido el arbitraje internacional para distintos Estados en el manejo de la pandemia, este lunes más de 400 agrupaciones enviarán una carta al Presidente Piñera y a la presidenta del Senado, pidiendo que no se ponga en tabla la ratificación del polémico acuerdo.
keywords: Chile , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS
COVID-19 and the risk of foreign investor challenges
National Magazine | 11-Sep-2020
Tensions are likely to surface between the public-policy directions of governments managing a challenging economic climate and foreign investors’ private interests.
keywords: covid , health , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Sudamérica, región más demandada en arbitraje de inversiones en CIADI
CIAR Global | 11-Sep-2020
Si sumamos los correspondientes a la zona de Centroamérica y el Caribe (7%), los casos rozarían el 40% de los presentados.
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Latin America
Sovereign rights to natural resources as a basis for denouncing international adjudication of investment disputes: A reflection on the Tanzanian approach
Afronomics Law | 11-Sep-2020
Tanzania’s reforms show that the claim that African states should regard ISDS mechanism as the preferred method for resolving investment disputes is not only very contested, but that there are legitimate grounds for those contestations.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , mining , natural resources , Tanzania
L’Angola et l’UE veulent passer à une nouvelle dimension
La Tribune Afrique | 11-Sep-2020
L’Angola et l’Union européenne vont lancer des discussions exploratrices en vue d’un accord d’investissement.
keywords: Angola , EPAs , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The red carpet investments in the middle of a pandemic result in crisis of people’s sovereignty
Indonesia for Global Justice | 11-Sep-2020
Indonesian CSOs assesses the national economic recovery strategy by strengthening policies economic liberalization focusing only on investment and exports will only be increasingly open space for corporate monopoly on economic resources.
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food , fisheries | fisherfolk , Indonesia , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Fracking company sues Slovenia over ‘unreasonable’ environmental protections
Climate Home News | 10-Sep-2020
A British oil and gas company is using a controversial energy treaty to sue Slovenia, after being required to carry out an environmental impact assessment
keywords: ECT , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Slovenia
Australian mining firm launches arbitration proceedings against Poland
First News | 10-Sep-2020
Australian mining firm Prairie Mining has launched international arbitration proceedings against Poland, claiming damages for the alleged hindering of the development of its two coal mines located in the country.
keywords: Australia , ECT , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , Poland
Naturgy y Perú al borde del arbitraje de inversión por proyecto gasístico Camisea
CIAR Global | 9-Sep-2020
La gasística española Naturgy podría acudir a arbitraje de inversiones contra Perú tras su salida del mercado peruano donde operaba el proyecto Camisea.
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Peru