Can a coalition of governments and other stakeholders gathering in Santa Marta make progress where other international efforts have failed?
- Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment, Queen's University, Ontario
The Keystone XL verdict highlights the importance of protecting governments and public bodies from financial liabilities while they work to keep oil and gas in the ground.
Kyla Tienhaara, an expert on investor state dispute settlement, talks to The Conversation Weekly about growing momentum against this secretive arbitration system.
To address the climate crisis, governments need to limit new fossil fuel developments. But foreign investors are often protected under trade and investment agreements.
A transcript of an episode of The Conversation Weekly published on October 6, 2022.
Experts are concerned that a legal mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement could affect countries’ moves to cut fossil fuel emissions. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
A new study adds up the potential legal and financial risk countries could face from hundreds of agreements, like those under the Energy Charter Treaty.
Has the summit delivered on its goals?
The threat of a large lawsuit could be enough to discourage some countries from taking action on climate change.
The oil and gas industry was in trouble before the pandemic hit, but now it faces potential collapse. A majority of Canadians want the federal government to invest in a ‘green recovery.’
Governments can staunch the current economic collapse without returning to the status quo.
Abolishing the secretive World Bank Tribunal known as the ISDS won’t solve all of the problems of global economic governance. But it seems a very good place to start.
The idea of the Green New Deal has been around for more than a decade. Why all the fuss about it now?
The Green New Deal has shifted the debate over what to do about climate change.
An American coal company is suing the Canadian government over Alberta’s plan to combat climate change.
The experience of Canada, which agreed to an ISDS clause in its North American Free Trade agreement, should give pause to Australia.
The latest part of the TPP to be leaked is its investment chapter. And like almost everything we know about the secretive negotiations for the agreement, it provides plenty of cause for concern.
The government and health advocates are deservedly celebrating the High Court decision on plain packaging. But tobacco companies have been quick to note that while they’ve lost a key battle, they intend…
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has apparently decided that it is up in arms over a Gillard government policy announced more than a year ago. In April 2011, the federal government…
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