ISDS Case Map
energy
oil, gas, agrofuels
Academics at the first fossil fuel phase-out summit urged governments to recognise investor protection treaties as a barrier to the energy transition.
When firm Blasket Renewables sought to enforce compensation in a US court, the European Commission argued that Spain could not legally pay it, highlighting a clash between international arbitration and EU law.
Romania deposited with the Energy Charter Secretariat a written notification of its decision to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty.
This article explores the role that Shell – in particular, through its legal department – played in shaping international investment law from 1957 to 1968.
One of the delaying issues, Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), came through clearly in the scientific discussions. In theory, ISDS protects investors against unfair treatment. In practice, it has often been used by fossil fuel companies to resist climate action.
Governments need to be able to regulate to meet their domestic policy goals or internationally recognised sustainable development goals. That necessarily means that sometimes hard decisions will need to be taken which will affect foreign investments on their soil.
Lansdowne Oil & Gas PLC said the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has registered the company's request for arbitration against Ireland, in a dispute over the Barryroe oil and gas field.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) commends Colombia for its leadership in advancing discussions over investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in recent weeks.
The US - Bangladesh agreement risks locking Bangladesh into costly LNG dependency, potentially undermining its renewable energy goals and energy security, especially given current renewables capacity of just 1,743 MW—mostly reliant on Chinese solar tech.
The ASEAN-Canada FTA is one of the agreements currently being negotiated that includes an investment protection chapter with an ISDS mechanism. This briefing note summarizes the October 2025 webinar, “Unpacking the ASEAN-Canada Free Trade Agreement (external link)
”, which examined the impact of ISDS and highlighted Canadian mining practices through emblematic ISDS cases.
