ISDS Case Map
environment
Corporate social responsibility provisions do not change the corporate or ethical duties of companies into enforceable legal obligations in the context of dispute settlement proceedings but they could help significantly moralize the use of treaty-based arbitration.
CETA and other trade treaties don’t consider water as a basic necessity, they consider it as an investment, as something that can be traded through private services.
Westmoreland Coal is suing Canada because it did not receive a transition payment following Alberta's coal phaseout plan. For the province, coal mining companies have no role to play in the energy transition.
Global corporations should not have special legal rights to undermine the policies of democratically elected governments.
The international trading system is facing a crisis – but protectionism isn’t the biggest test EU leaders must deal with.
The selection of 10 key cases for this book has been made based on investment disputes that have implications for sustainable development, in its three dimensions: economic development, social development and environmental protection.
The documents highlight for the first time the pressure placed on the French parliament by a foreign company’s threat to use the ISDS mechanism.
More outsourcing of pollution and jobs, handouts to corporate polluters, and climate denial
Pablo Fajardo, the lead lawyer for the communities who have been fighting for 25 years for compensation for the severe pollution in the amazon region, and Donald Moncayo, one of the coordinators of the organization that has led this campaign talk about the Chevron case.
Treasury minister was speaking on the same day the Cato Institute called for softer environmental rules and NHS competition.
