climate
E3G | 2-Jun-2025
By protecting fossil fuel investments, investment treaties with ISDS are undermining the global energy transition. This briefing explores three alternative tools that may protect foreign investors from regulatory changes.
TNI - RadioUChile | 28-May-2025
¿Cómo los acuerdos comerciales afectan nuestra soberanía en la transición energética? En esta cápsula, exploramos el vínculo entre tratados de libre comercio y extractivismo.
Global Development Policy Center | 28-May-2025
To accomplish the removal of ISDS efficiently, G7 countries, or some subset of them, could lead the development of a plurilateral agreement to alter all IIAs amongst the parties that sign up to it.
Veblen | 23-May-2025
The Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”), the most widely used investment treaty, has become highly controversial for enabling investors to challenge national policies aimed at achieving climate goals through its ISDS mechanism, leading to a phenomenon known as “regulatory chill.
Novethic | 23-May-2025
Le Traité sur la charte de l’énergie, qui permet aux investisseurs d’attaquer en justice les gouvernements dès lors que ces derniers modifient leurs politiques énergétiques, est encore bien vigoureux.
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.
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga | 2-May-2025
Aussie mining billionaire sues Australia for A$420 billion... Yes, this could happen in Aotearoa!!!
Monitor | 25-Apr-2025
Treaties and agreements should facilitate a green and equitable transition by channeling investments into renewable energy, circular economies, and sustainable infrastructure.
Monitor | 15-Apr-2025
The Energy Charter Treaty not only locks countries into outdated fossil fuel investments but also hampers their ability to pursue sustainable, climate-friendly energy policies.
blue News | 14-Apr-2025
In Bern, several hundred people on the Bundesplatz criticized the federal government, which wants to modernize the International Energy Charter Treaty that came into force in 1998. They called for an exit.