AFTINET | 1ro-oct-2025
With COP30 in Brazil around the corner and with the prospect of Australia co-hosting COP31 next year, a major threat to effective climate action continues to fly under the radar: Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanisms in trade and investment agreements.
Common Frontiers | 30-sep-2025
Tens of thousands of people took to the street in a nationwide strike opposing various Canadian-owned mining projects while the Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement could be tabled any day now.
The Guardian | 29-sep-2025
Attorney general says mining magnate is ‘not a foreign investor’ and is ‘not entitled to any benefits under Australia’s free trade and investment agreements’
AfricanManager | 25-sep-2025
Zenith Energy Ltd. announced Monday that its UK subsidiaries have filed their final submissions in an ongoing international arbitration case against the Republic of Tunisia before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington.
Linkedin | 24-sep-2025
These cases can cost countries (or rather, taxpayers) billions — even when decisions were taken democratically to protect people, the environment, or national security.
Drilled | 19-sep-2025
Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning compensation for home damages and the permanent closure of the Groningen gas field.
Africain law and business | 18-sep-2025
Tanzania will have to defend allegations that it is trying to force a foreign energy company out of a USD 1.2 billion gas production project.
Türkiye Today | 17-sep-2025
As part of the agreement, arbitration proceedings brought by Alamos’s Netherlands subsidiaries against the Republic of Türkiye under the Netherlands–Türkiye Bilateral Investment Treaty will remain suspended.
MercoPress | 9-sep-2025
The Uruguayan state had its bank accounts in Luxembourg frozen for several months due to non-payment of an arbitration award over the closure of national airline Pluna.
Eurasianet | 8-sep-2025
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has sided with Kazakhstan in a case brought by a Kyrgyz entrepreneur claiming over $34 billion in damages. Instead, the businessman, Yevgeny Belavin, now must pay all of Kazakhstan’s substantial legal fees, as well as court costs.

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