ISDS Case Map
ECT
Energy Charter Treaty
There is a coordinated move for EU members to withdraw from the dangerous Energy Charter Treaty but Ireland is refusing to act.
A UN expert calls for ending confidential arbitration agreements in development and trade treaties, which are forcing nations to roll back climate, enviro, human rights protections while owing fossil fuel companies billions in damages.
Investment protection is necessary to encourage energy transition investment.
Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty. We must join them.
The Energy Charter Treaty, which Spain is trying to leave, protects investments in fossil fuels and in renewables.
Dutch taxpayers have already incurred € 5.4 million in arbitration costs in RWE and Uniper cases.
Energy companies cannot force European governments into arbitration over compensation demands for investments hit by changing state climate goals, Germany's highest civil court ruled.
Portugal’s Environment Minister Duarte Cordeiro annouced that the country has started withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty, in line with a proposal tabled by the European Commission two weeks ago.
The latest development was a decision on 11 July to lift a provisional stay of enforcement.
We call on you to support the Commission’s proposal for a coordinated
withdrawal of the EU and all its member states from the Energy Charter Treaty and
welcome a discussion of the ECT among energy ministers.
