climate


EU to propose exit from Energy Charter Treaty over climate concerns
The European Commission is readying a proposal for EU countries to jointly quit an international energy treaty, after some governments already pledged to leave over climate concerns.
Canada’s options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit
This briefing paper explores what that prioritization might look like, and proposes a number of concrete paths forward for the Canadian government.
Between a mineral and a hard place
In the era of the energy transition, questions of state control and power are back on the agenda in a big way.
India plans to challenge EU carbon tax at WTO
The exporters' body warned the EU plan could make India's free trade agreements with other countries and a proposed pact with the EU "redundant" as the prices of many exporters' goods would rise.
A new trade deal delivers cheaper Australian beef and British sweets – but does little to avert dangerous global warming
A free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom begins on Wednesday. It does relatively little to tackle climate change.
Catch-22: Canada’s attempts to phase out fossil fuel might result in it paying the polluters
US$20 billion: That’s how much American investors think Canadian taxpayers should fork over to compensate them for their failed bid to develop a liquefied natural gas facility in Québec.
EU mulls partial exit from energy treaty over climate concerns
The European Union is considering a proposal to quit an international energy treaty that has become mired in climate change concerns, but leave an option for individual countries to stay in an updated version of the accord, a document showed.
How the toxic EU-Mercosur deal will undermine Brazil’s climate & deforestation goals
While the Amazon passes irreversible environmental tipping points and new toxic chemicals leave a trail of contamination, the European Union is actively signing away more of the planet and people in the lethal EU-Mercosur free trade agreement.
Denmark to withdraw from Energy Charter Treaty
Denmark will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty as it creates more uncertainties about investments than certainties, the Danish government announced.
Rough trade
UK accession to Pacific trade deal empowers fossil fuel firms to sue governments.