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Powerful anti-climate legal instrument could cost the UK billions
E3G | 9-Oct-2025
In August 2025, for the second time in its history, the UK government was sued by a foreign investor under investor-state dispute settlement provisions, through the 1975 UK-Singapore bilateral investment treaty.
keywords: climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS , UK
The corporate siege of Honduras: international arbitration demands, energy transition, and state sovereignty
bilaterals.org | 3-Oct-2025
Between July 14 and 17, in the city of Choluteca (Honduras), more than 60 people from 20 local communities and representatives of national and international social movements gathered for the “Meeting of communities affected by energy projects in southern Honduras - Without human rights, there is no energy sovereignty.”
keywords: actions | resistance , climate , from the movements , Honduras , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The international investment legal regime, climate change, and human rights: an overview
CIEL | 3-Oct-2025
Fossil fuel companies alone have launched over 300 ISDS cases, seeking over $80 billion in damages for climate-related policies aimed at phasing out oil, gas, and coal.
keywords: climate , human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Clive Palmer’s multibillion-dollar claims make a mockery of a tribunal that allows foreign investors to challenge court decisions
The Guardian | 1-Oct-2025
The billionaire’s last three cases are part of a growing global list from fossil fuel companies against government decisions to reduce carbon emissions.
keywords: Australia , climate , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
AFTINET webinar: ISDS - Fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against climate action and Clive Palmer case outcome
AFTINET | 1-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.
keywords: Australia , climate , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Clive Palmer ordered to pay $13m after claim of being ‘foreign investor’ in Australian mining project thrown out
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’
keywords: Australia , climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Record number of corporate lawsuits target climate action in controversial tribunal
Follow The Money | 3-Sep-2025
Fossil fuel and mining companies are ramping up lawsuits against governments over environmental rules, using a controversial arbitration mechanism that critics say is skewed in industry’s favour and jeopardises global climate action.
keywords: climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Te Taiao and climate crisis
Ngā Toki Whakarururanga | 1-Sep-2025
Recent agreements (negotiated in secret) also guarantee foreign corporations the rights to lobby against new laws in the name of “transparency”; guaranteed rights that iwi and hapū don’t have.
keywords: climate , from the movements , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , New Zealand
Britain sued in ‘corporate court’ over quashing of coal mine in Cumbria
Global Justice Now | 1-Sep-2025
Lawsuit is the first known case under Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) against the UK since 2006 proceeding to arbitration, and the first ISDS case brought against it in response to a climate policy.
keywords: climate , from the movements , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , UK
El asedio corporativo a Honduras: demandas internacionales de arbitraje, transición energética y soberanía estatal
bilaterals.org | 6-Aug-2025
Entre el 14 y 17 de Julio, en la ciudad de Choluteca (Honduras), más de 60 personas provenientes de 20 comunidades locales y representantes de organizaciones sociales nacionales e internacionales, se reunieron en el “Encuentro de comunidades afectadas por proyectos energéticos del sur de Honduras - Sin derechos humanos, no hay soberanía energética”. El objetivo fue visibilizar los impactos devastadores que muchos proyectos de “energía renovable” (principalmente fotovoltaicos), están generando en las comunidades locales. Al mismo tiempo, los y las participantes analizaron el asedio que el país enfrenta en tribunales internacionales, a causa de las demandas de arbitraje internacional que muchas empresas transnacionales dueñas de estos proyectos energéticos, han interpuesto en contra de Honduras.
keywords: actions | resistance , climate , from the movements , Honduras , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS