ISDS Case Map
ECT
Energy Charter Treaty
An obscure investment agreement, the Energy Charter Treaty, threatens to undermine bold climate action to transform Europe’s energy system.
For the first time, Sweden has recieved a notice of arbitration for banning the exploration and mining of uranium.
Climate campaigners are demanding that European Union countries pull out of the treaty unless they can negotiate an end to the pact’s investor-state dispute mechanism.
We – 278 environmental, climate, consumer, development, and trade related civil society groups, as well as trade unions – believe that the ECT is incompatible with the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Spain has offered an olive branch in its long-running legal battle with renewables developers. But the fight isn’t over yet.
