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ECJ versus Energy Charter Treaty

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ECJ versus Energy Charter Treaty

From Fabian Flues / 13.01.2022 Comments Disabled

Will Europe's highest court be able to restrict corporate litigation rights? On 2 September, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) announced that arbitration proceedings under the Energy Charter Treaty between investors from the EU and EU Member States against...

Travel guide: EU – Colombia, Peru & Ecuador

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Travel guide: EU – Colombia, Peru & Ecuador

From Jeremy Oestreich and Bettina Müller / 18.11.2021 Comments Disabled

Poverty increase or a way out of poverty? A trade agreement has been in place between the EU and Peru, Colombia, since 2013. Ecuador acceded to the agreement in 2017. PowerShift, in cooperation with civil society [...]

Expensive to buy: How the Energy Charter Treaty drove up the costs of Germany's lignite phase-out

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Expensive to buy: How the Energy Charter Treaty drove up the costs of Germany's lignite phase-out

From Fabian Flues / 15.11.2021 Comments Disabled

The Energy Charter Treaty has made it more difficult and more expensive for Germany to phase out coal. This is the conclusion of a briefing that PowerShift is publishing today together with eight other civil society organisations.

Investor protection and corporate complaints despite climate crisis?

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Investor protection and corporate complaints despite climate crisis?

From Emma Jacoby / 22.09.2021 Comments Disabled

CETA, ECT and the environment are not green PowerShift has today published a new fact sheet that shows Canadian investments in fossil fuel projects in the EU and thus makes it clear that [...]

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Stopping the Energy Charter Treaty - Saving the energy transition

From Fabian Flues / 14.09.2021 Comments Disabled

Der Energiecharta-Vertrag gefährdet den Kampf gegen die Klimakrise und für eine saubere Energiewende.

Infographic: Paraguay - The Forgotten Land of Mercosur

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Infographic: Paraguay - The Forgotten Land of Mercosur

From Jeremy Oestreich / 18.05.2021 Comments Disabled

The EU is sticking to the trade agreement with the Mercosur states Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay - despite all the criticism and the foreseeable consequences of the agreement for man and nature, climate [...]

Travel guide: EU-Mexico – All power to...? investors.

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Travel guide: EU-Mexico – All power to...? investors.

From Bettina Müller / 28.04.2021 Comments Disabled

An introduction to the EU-Mexico trade agreement The renewed EU-Mexico trade agreement is expected to be the first to be voted on in the EU Council and European Parliament in 2021. The EU is looking [...]

Dispelling myths surrounding the Energy Charter Treaty – A guide to reasoning

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Dispelling myths surrounding the Energy Charter Treaty – A guide to reasoning

From Fabian Flues / 31.03.2021 Comments Disabled

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an investment agreement for the energy sector, has recently come into the spotlight. No other contract has been used so often by investors [...]

Extractivism Reloaded – commodity policy in Latin America since the boom from 2003

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Extractivism Reloaded – commodity policy in Latin America since the boom from 2003

From Michael Reckordt / 22.03.2021 Comments Disabled

At the beginning of the 2000s, Latin America showed that things could be different: Starting from Venezuela, ‘progressive’ governments were elected in various countries and the so-called ‘Left Decade’ heralded. According to [...]

Factsheet: Global – Regional – it doesn’t matter?

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Factsheet: Global – Regional – it doesn’t matter?

From Alessa Hartmann / 25.01.2021 Comments Disabled

The milk value chain and considerations for solidarity-based regionalisation The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underscores new dimensions in the issue of global supply chains and international trade policy. Civil society...