ISDS Case Map
environment
ICSID tribunal rules Costa Rica was in its right to stop a tourist construction project on the Pacific coast that violated environmental laws.
The deal’s impact on efforts to halt illegal logging and the tradein illegal timber remains an area of deep concern.
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment is hosting a two-day conference on rethinking international investment governance, which seeks to elaborate principles for a progressive investment agenda.
The task no longer lies with interpreting investment treaties alone and trying to reform investment arbitration in general – but designing an entirely cohesive system for international environmental justice that is open to the actual victims of environmental disasters and not just the States that often fail to genuinely represent them.
Victims of Chevron-Texaco's pollution of the Ecuadorean Amazon have vowed to fight to protect the ruling which has granted them compensation.
Ecuador will be forced to pay economic reparations to the oil giant. The over 30,000 affected people in the Amazon haven't received any compensation.
The signatories of this letter wish to express their rejection of this decision and their support for the people of Ecuador and the organizations that have defended the communities affected by Chevron Texaco.
Ecuador found liable for violating international law, supporting fraud and corruption.
Trade and Sustainable Development provisions in EU FTAs remain aspirational and there is no clear trend of improvement.
Foreign investors in tourism have a long and successful history of using investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) under investment treaties.
