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European ISDS Scorecard
22-Apr-2026 Power Shift
The European ISDS Scorecard ranks 30 European countries across 10 indicators that capture the scale of each country’s treaty network, its policy direction, and the real-world use and financial impact of ISDS by its investors.
Investor protection blocking climate action
16-Apr-2026 SOMO
From 24-29 April 2026, Colombia and the Netherlands are co-hosting the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta. The goal is urgent and widely shared: to accelerate a just and orderly phase-out of coal, oil and gas.
The EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership and Investment Protection Agreements
15-Apr-2026 Fern
The EU-Indonesia CEPA and IPA aimed to enhance trade and investment while promoting "sustainable" palm oil. However, reduced tariffs on forest-risk commodities and lack of community safeguards highlight the urgent need for strict enforcement of EU due diligence regulations to protect forests and local communities.
Europe must address ISDS as a systemic barrier to a just transition
14-Apr-2026 CAN Europe
Current discussions around fossil fuel phase-out create a key opportunity to make progress on addressing this barrier. Civil society organisations are calling on European governments to explore and act on collectively disengaging from ISDS.
Australia-EU FTA text only partly released: some positives but full analysis after full text released in September
14-Apr-2026 AFTINET
The general framework of the agreement is to remove tariffs and minimise regulation for business, with exceptions intended to preserve government rights to regulate in key areas.
Statement from the Stop ISDS campaign to the government of President Gustavo Petro
13-Apr-2026 Stop ISDS campaign
Members of the “Stop ISDS” campaign express our support for Colombian government’s announcement on March 26, 2026, regarding Colombia’s withdrawal from the investment arbitration regime to protect transnational investors.
Colombia leads global south countries’ exit from ISDS
10-Apr-2026 PSI
Colombia’s president has announced that the country will exit the International Investment Arbitration System (ISDS). This comes in the wake of an ongoing effort against ISDS and for the exit of countries in the Global South from these mechanisms.
The e-commerce plurilateral reveals the backdoor strategy to adopt JSIs
8-Apr-2026
Arguably, the most significant outcome from the World Trade Organization’s “reform” ministerial conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon in March 2026 was the adoption by a sub-group of 66 Members of a plurilateral agreement on electronic commerce.
One year of Trump tariffs prove corporate profits always came before the public interest
3-Apr-2026 Common Dreams
The 2026 NTE Report makes it clear that the Trump administration’s primary motivation behind its trade policy is to protect the profits of big US companies.
How Britain got sued for stopping a coal mine
3-Apr-2026 Global Justice Now
While energy bills spiral, public money could soon flow to an overseas fossil fuel company. Because a government dared to block a climate-wrecking coal mine.
The EU-Ecuador trade agreement must work to protect workers’ rights in the banana industry
3-Apr-2026 Action Aid
Ecuadorian trade union ASTAC and its European partners denounce the outrageous lack of human rights and environmental protections in the banana industry under the EU-Ecuador Trade Agreement.
Yaoundé declaration: The WTO And free trade cause hunger, poverty and inequality
31-Mar-2026 Vía Campesina
For nearly thirty years the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), peasants’ organisations gathered in Cameroon have concluded that the WTO and free trade agreements hinder the development of countries in the Global South and lead to the ruin of small-scale producers worldwide.
No EU–US trade deal at the expense of climate, democracy, and sovereignty
26-Mar-2026 Friends of the Earth Europe
Europe’s economic and political strength is based on cooperation, the rule of law, and democratic processes. A deal concluded under coercion would undermine these principles.
International resistance to Trump trade deals
25-Mar-2026 Public Citizen
Thousands of farmers, labor organizers, healthcare workers, faith leaders, economists, climate experts, government officials, and more from across the world are urging their governments to resist US imperialism through trade deals.
ECVC warns that the EU-Australia trade agreement threatens European food sovereignty
24-Mar-2026 European Coordination Via Campesina
For ECVC, agriculture has no place in such deals. EU trade officials must abandon this path and instead channel their energy into a radical overhaul of the EU’s agricultural trade policy.
Do trade deals put public health care up for sale?
24-Mar-2026 CCPA
Alberta’s promised two-tier transition comes with unacknowledged threats from trade and investment agreements.
A tax moratorium to enable a foreign AI invasion
23-Mar-2026 The Hindu
The push for a permanent moratorium signals the US’s bid to dominate the AI-driven global economy.
The Argentina-US trade agreement turns the RIGI into a mega investment protection treaty
20-Mar-2026 TNI
The agreement, which still has to be approved by the Argentine Congress, will give the Incentives Regime for Large Investments (RIGI) a central role, converting it into a mechanism to satisfy the appetites of US corporations.
MEPs push back on Commission over Western Sahara in EU–Morocco trade
20-Mar-2026 Western Sahara Resource Watch
MEPs from across the political spectrum sharply criticised the European Commission over its handling of EU-Morocco trade relations covering occupied Western Sahara, raising concerns over legality, transparency and an apparent disregard for Parliament’s role.
Adding fuel to the climate crisis: the EU-Mercosur agreement
19-Mar-2026 Power Shift
This publication provides an overview of the consequences of the EUMercosur agreement in relation to deforestation, environmental destruction and climate change.