Allowing foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits is legal terrorism – it must end
Joseph Stiglitz
The age of extinction
Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels
The age of extinction
Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws
The age of extinction
Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn
June 2024
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis
Fossil fuel firms are biggest beneficiaries of investor-state dispute settlement courts which have awarded $114bn of public money
April 2024
MEPs vote to leave treaty used by investors to sue over climate policies
Coordinated withdrawal agreed after several member states and UK have quit energy charter treaty
February 2024
UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies
Britain joins France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands in withdrawing from charter it says ‘penalises’ shift to net zero
January 2024
Seascape: the state of our oceans
How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
Local fishers helped halt underwater mining off Baja California’s coast in 2018. But then an obscure international legal process was put into motion
September 2023
Fossil fuel companies have a secret weapon. Here’s how Britain can help take it away from them
Cleodie Rickard
Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty. We must join them, says Cleodie Rickard of Global Justice Now
October 2022
UK firms using legal muscle to facilitate human rights and climate abuses – report
European Commission aims to end secret system protecting fossil fuel holdings
August 2021
Why is life on Earth still taking second place to fossil fuel companies?
George Monbiot
Effective action against climate breakdown is near impossible while governments are vulnerable to lawsuits, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
July 2021
Outrage as Italy faces multimillion pound damages to UK oil firm
Secretive tribunals allow fossil fuel companies to sue governments for passing laws to protect environment
June 2021
A clause in the UK-Australia trade deal could let companies sue governments. We have been here before
Patricia Ranald
Australians remember Philip Morris suing the government. We should not hand UK corporations the same weapon
May 2021
Alarm at secret court scheme in UK-Australia trade deal
Campaigners concerned by controversial plans for tribunals where firms can seek compensation for effect of government policies
April 2021
Oil companies don’t deserve reparations for fossil fuel bans. They’ll still want them
Nicolás M Perrone
Energy conglomerates have recourse to special courts and legal regimes that they helped design – and they won’t go down without a fight
December 2019
US rules out any talk of a climate crisis in trade negotiations
Campaigners furious at American ban revealed by leaked documents
October 2019
Union anger at Labor for siding with Coalition on new free trade deals
Opposition will support trade agreements with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru but push for a range of concessions
