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Luxembourg eco-investors helped sink condemned energy treaty
21-Nov-2025     Luxembourg Times
Funds used fossil-fuel friendly tool to fight back when countries pulled renewable energy incentives, hurting their green investments.
Carney signs UAE investment pact, launches trade talks during Abu Dhabi visit
21-Nov-2025     CBC
Carney announced the investment pact following a meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two also launched talks for a full trade deal, aimed at an eventual comprehensive economic partnership agreement.
Aris Mining ends Colombia arbitration with settlement
20-Nov-2025     Mining Weekly
Gold miner Aris Mining has reached a settlement with Colombia to terminate a long-running investor–state arbitration case, marking the first agreement of its kind in the country and ending a dispute dating back to 2018.
India, Israel to expedite FTA plan, boost economic ties
20-Nov-2025     Financial Express
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Israel for a review of the proposed free trade agreement between the two sides.
MEPs reject push to fast-track vote on EU–Mercosur safeguards
20-Nov-2025     Euractiv
A bid by the centre-right European People’s Party to fast-track additional safeguards linked to the EU-Mercosur trade deal collapsed during a meeting of political group chairs, according to multiple parliamentary officials.
Canada to pursue free trade negotiations with the Philippines as land and environmental defenders continue to be killed
20-Nov-2025     Peace Brigades International
On November 5, 2025, the Canadian government tabled a Notice of Intent to enter into free trade negotiations with the Philippines.
European Parliament blocks MEPs' attempt to stall Mercosur deal
20-Nov-2025     Euronews
A draft resolution opposing the Mercosur trade agreement has been blocked on procedural grounds, sparking parliamentarians' anger and putting the deal’s ratification process off to a tense start.
Colombia slams international trade rules that punish states for climate action
20-Nov-2025     Mongabay
Colombian Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres has called for reform of international arbitration tribunals, saying they’re “one of the greatest obstacles” to the energy transition and favor corporate interests over sovereignty.
The EU-Singapore digital trade agreement: gambling away our digital sovereignty
19-Nov-2025     The Left in the European Parliament
Significant concerns about the potentially negative impacts on EU policy space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’ rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation remain unaddressed.
S. Korea wins annulment in investor dispute over Lone Star's sale of local bank
19-Nov-2025     Yonhap
An international arbitration body for investor–state dispute settlement has ruled in favor of South Korea in its challenge to the award for private equity fund Lone Star over its 2012 sale of a local bank.