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Environnement: un mécanisme juridique peu connu profite aux sociétés de combustibles fossiles
RFI | 11-Jun-2024
Près de 114 milliards de dollars, c’est la somme totale que des tribunaux d’arbitrage ont fait payer par des États à des entreprises privées à ce jour.
keywords: climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The corporate colonization of Latin America
Public Citizen | 11-Jun-2024
How Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) harms indigenous communities.
keywords: indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
Biden should end the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon
Counter Punch | 11-Jun-2024
There is an obscure mechanism by which fossil fuel companies maintain their global domination even as their products are destroying our futures.
keywords: climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
ISDS courts have helped fossil fuel firms rake in $80 billion in public money
Common Dreams | 11-Jun-2024
"ISDS is the secret weapon for fossil fuel companies against climate laws," said one advocate.
keywords: actions | resistance , climate , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Fallo del Banco Mundial a favor de Colombia en disputa minera
Redimin | 10-Jun-2024
El Tribunal del Banco Mundial falla en contra de la minera canadiense en disputa legal con Colombia. La solicitud de arbitraje fue presentada ante el CIADI en marzo de 2018 y exigía una compensación de aproximadamente $177 millones.
keywords: Canada , Colombia , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Panamá gana demanda de arbitraje presentada ante el CIADI por el cierre de casa de valores
Proceso Digital | 10-Jun-2024
Panamá ganó una demanda de arbitraje presentada ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones (CIADI) por un inversionista holandés, que exigía una indemnización de al menos 60 millones de dólares, por la intervención y liquidación de una casa de valores, informó este miércoles el Gobierno panameño.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , Panama
World Bank tribunal rules against Canadian miner in legal dispute with Colombia
Mining.com | 10-Jun-2024
The World Bank’s ICSID ruled in favour of Colombia in a feud with Canada’s Montauk Metals after finding that the mining ban imposed by the Gustavo Petro administration on the Santurbán moor does not violate the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement signed in 2008.
keywords: Canada , Colombia , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Extraction d’or interdite : la Colombie gagne un procès contre une société canadienne
Radio-Canada | 10-Jun-2024
La Colombie a remporté un procès contre la société minière canadienne Montauk Metals, qui réclamait 240 millions de dollars canadiens pour l’avoir expropriée d’une zone d’extraction d’or dans un écosystème fragile du nord-est du pays.
keywords: Canada , Colombia , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
The power of sunset clauses put to the test: Can intra-EU BITs be back from the dead?
DLA Piper | 7-Jun-2024
There appears to remain a growing demand from investors for the creation of a new European investor-State dispute settlement regime, which would provide a permanent neutral forum for the adjudication of their intra-EU claims.
keywords: corporate interests , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Deep-sea mining: dispute settlements under international investment law
Mining Technology | 7-Jun-2024
In part three of our series about international deep-sea mining regulation, Louise Woods and Elena Guillet of Vinson & Elkins explore how international investment law could be applied to dispute resolution.
keywords: corporate interests , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining