ISDS Case Map
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Treaty allows energy corporations to sue governments for billions over policies that could hurt their profits.
The arbitration has been discontinued in response to the non-payment of the claimant’s portion of the required advance payment of the costs of the proceeding.
The settlement is under the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, introduced this year to put an end to 17 tax disputes India has with multinational companies like Cairn and Vodafone Plc.
Seen as a step for seizure of assets of Indian PSUs abroad.
SREW N.V., an open joint-stock company registered in Belgium, which owns 75% of the charter capital of Dnipro-Buzka wind plant LLC, has initiated arbitration against Ukraine.
Allowing oil, mining, and gas companies to continue to file expensive lawsuits over environmental regulations could undermine whatever agreements might be reached in the COP26 in Glasgow.
Coal plant owners are using this little-known mechanism to try and recoup billions from governments who are forcing them to shut down polluting plants
Meanwhile, the European Commission is working on a legislative initiative aiming at improving the protections offered to intra-EU investment under EU law.
Courts allow big polluters to sue governments into “a state of climate paralysis”, campaigners say.
Rules accepted under various trade and investment agreements often benefit destructive, extractive industries to the detriment of national and international climate goals and ambitions.
