Recent fossil fuel arbitration claims based on the #noECT Energy Contract Treaty highlight the urgency of neutralizing the sunset clause, #ISDS,

Mathilde Dupré & Stéphanie Kpenou, https://www.veblen-institute.org/Recent-fossil-fuel-arbitration-claims-based-on-the-ECT-highlight-the-urgency-of-2188.html

Recent fossil fuel arbitration claims based on the ECT highlight the urgency of neutralizing the sunset clause – Institut Veblen / Veblen Institute

On the occasion of the meeting of the Council of Trade Ministers on 15 May 2025, the Veblen Institute publishes a briefing on the 24 new cases of investor-State disputes based on the Energy Charter…

Institut Veblen / Veblen Institute
Allowing foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits is legal terrorism – it must end

Investor–state dispute settlements don’t just mean growing debt burdens for countries: they are also a barrier to action on the climate crisis

The Guardian
Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws, by
Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe Weston #StopISDS , #noECT, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/revealed-how-wall-street-is-making-millions-betting-against-green-laws-isds-aoe
Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators

The Guardian
Opponents of controversial energy investment treaty to go after old agreements

Having pushed the EU out of the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), pressure groups and MEPs are now ai

EURACTIV

Desde 2018 que a TROCA, em articulação com mais de 50 outras OSC europeias, empenhou-se intensamente para que os Estados Membros e a UE se retirassem do TCE. Após uma luta de cerca de 6 anos, a UE retira-se do TCE, tendo Portugal contribuído para chegarmos a esta vitória.

https://www.plataforma-troca.org/saida-da-ue-do-tratado-da-carta-da-energia-a-vitoria-da-cidadania-europeia-que-a-troca-ajudou-a-alcancar/

#PlataformaTroca #TCE #NoECT #ECT #EnergyCharterTreaty #TratadoCartaEnergia

Saída da UE do Tratado da Carta da Energia: A vitória da cidadania europeia que a TROCA ajudou a alcançar! - TROCA

Portugal contribuiu para chegarmos a esta vitória por um futuro mais verde e mais justo!

TROCA
EU-Parlament: Energiecharta-Vertrag geht, Lieferkettengesetz kommt!

Ein guter Tag für die Zivilgesellschaft

UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies

Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zero

The Guardian
#noECT RT @glynmoody: ‘Litigation terrorism’: the obscure tool that corporations are using against green laws - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/12/litigation-terrorism-how-corporations-are-winning-billions-from-governments "Investor-State Dispute Settlements are legal, huge and often hush-hush – and fossil fuel firms and others are using them to hold the planet to ransom" some of us warned about #ISDS ten years ago...
‘Litigation terrorism’: the obscure tool that corporations are using against green laws

Investor-State Dispute Settlements are legal, huge and often hush-hush – and fossil fuel firms and others are using them to hold the planet to ransom

The Guardian
Ihr erinnert euch: #noECT, #exitECT. Das Netzwerk #GerechterWelthandel hat lange dafür gekämpft. Und nun ist es soweit: Seit heute ist #Deutschland kein Mitglied mehr von dem Klimakiller-Abkommen #Energiecharta (Abkürzung #ECT) 🎉
Sign the petition urging the government to pull out of the Energy Charter Treaty that is blocking climate action in the UK. #ExitECT #NoECT: https://act.350.org/sign/energy-charter-treaty-petition-UK/
#petition #uk #climatechange
Stop the Treaty that's blocking climate action in the UK

Fossil fuel energies will do little to lower our energy bills and will just continue to fuel the climate crisis. Big oil giants are already profiting from the crisis. We can't have a government who puts polluters over people!