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Romania wins EUR 256 mln arbitration with solar parks investors
21-Jan-2025 Romania-Insider
Romania has won an international arbitration case brought by investors in renewable energy, avoiding EUR 256 million in claimed damages.
IEU CEPA: A threat to the environment, indigenous peoples, and biodiversity
21-Jan-2025 Indonesia for Global Justice
Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ) and WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) released a joint statement raises critical concerns about the proposed Indonesia-EU CEPA. It highlights the potential negative impacts of the agreement, particularly when coupled with Indonesia’s Omnibus Law, on the environment, Indigenous communities, and biodiversity.
Clive Palmer’s foreign investor claims against Australia now $420b
10-Jan-2025 Pearls and Irritations
Clive Palmer’s latest claims join a growing global list of ISDS claims by fossil fuel companies defined by the UN and the OECD as threats to the global climate transition.
Zenith Energy wins key decision in ICSID arbitration
2-Jan-2025 Investing.com
In a significant legal development, Zenith Energy Ltd. announced that the ICSID has rejected a request for bifurcation by the Republic of Tunisia in an ongoing arbitration case.
Enagás: ICSID agrees with Enagás in dispute with Peru over GSP and recognises compensation of €186 million
24-Dec-2024 The Corner
Favourable news for Enagás, although the amount is lower than initially claimed and represents an accounting loss.
GoP receives notice from Halmore power company regarding ‘forced’ negotiated settlement
20-Dec-2024 NewzShewz
The government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has received a formal notification regarding a claim from the owner of Halmore power company.
Commission must stop Energy Charter Treaty hijacking EU climate policy
18-Dec-2024 Euractiv
The Energy Charter Treaty allow fossil fuel investors to sue EU member states before international arbitral tribunals to challenge climate mitigation measures. This legal mechanism is increasingly weaponized by the industry.
How predatory energy developers harassed Hondurans
13-Dec-2024 Foreign Policy in Focus
Honduras’s coup-era government opened the floodgates for predatory energy projects. Now that Hondurans are fighting back, the companies are trying to take them to arbitration.
“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South
12-Dec-2024 Land and Climate Review
Experts talk about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
The Energy Charter Treaty remains the most dangerous investment treaty to the energy transition
4-Dec-2024 E3G
Our ranking reveals that the Energy Charter Treaty remains the most dangerous investment treaty to the energy transition by protecting over 300 megatonnes (Mt) of greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy Charter Treaty modernisation adopted, still undermines climate action
3-Dec-2024 Friends of the Earth Europe
Even after modernisation, the ECT continues to undermine European and global climate policies.
Azerbaijan files arbitration claim against Armenia for violating Energy Charter Treaty
25-Nov-2024 Caspian News
Azerbaijan filed a Statement of Claim with the Permanent Court of Arbitration against Armenia, as part of the international legal proceedings from February 2023, detailing Yerevan’s violations of Baku’s sovereign rights over its energy resources in the once-occupied territories.
Green colonialism in Western Sahara
24-Oct-2024 Freedom news
Under Moroccan occupation, renewables projects are being used to reinforce dominance
Kenya’s energy goals could be jeopardised by foreign treaty, say experts
23-Oct-2024 The Standard
Critics argue that the ECT, designed to protect foreign investments, contains vague provisions that allow multinational corporations to sue governments for lost profits due to policy changes.
After intra-EU BITs and the ECT, the EU needs to abandon extra-EU BITs—for legal, energy and climate policy, and political economy reasons
14-Oct-2024 CCSI
EU members should terminate extra-EU BITs. To facilitate the process, the EU could spearhead an instrument similar to the plurilateral agreement to terminate intra-EU BITs or based on the draft treaty language on termination proposed to UNCITRAL.
ExxonMobil sues the Netherlands over gas field closure
11-Oct-2024 SOMO
The multinational disagrees with the decision that gas production in the Dutch province of Groningen will be shut down early.
Update on arbitrations against the Republic of Tunisia
4-Oct-2024 Euronext
The investors have determined a revised amount of US$503 million as the total claimed amount of the ICSID Arbitration
Investors sue Finland for attempt to curb power transmission prices
1-Oct-2024 XM
Investors in Finland’s largest power distributor Caruna are taking the Nordic country to arbitration, the Finnish foreign ministry said, due to the Finnish Energy Authority’s attempt to curb rising power transmission prices for ordinary consumers.
SAMIR case: Morocco, Corral Holdings file for rectification of ICSID ruling
9-Sep-2024 Morocco World News
The SAMIR affair, dating back to the refinery’s 2015 closure, has seen Morocco and Corral Holdings locked in a bitter dispute before the ICSID tribunal.
‘Expropriation threat’: Tanzania hit by $1.2 billion damages claim in bitter gas field dispute
9-Aug-2024 Upstream
Toronto-listed Orca Energy has hit Tanzania’s government with a US$1.2 billion claim