News and Analysis

The UK and other rich industrialised Global North countries must take responsibility for fuelling the climate crisis by paying climate reparations to countries in the Global South.  

Rockhopper successfully sued Italy for £210 million over Italy’s law banning coastal oil drilling, using the ECT and ISDS.

How will Colombia’s new Pacto Historico government, headed by Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez translate their radical climate justice platform into policy?

The plans to modernise the Energy Charter Treaty are corporate greenwashing. The UK governments arguments for modernisation instead of abolition aren't logical from a climate justice perspective.

Decent work and a living wage are not only basic rights, but a key route out of poverty. Through organising, the collective voice of workers has won rights and decent work for millions of people.

The Maricunga salt flats, in the heart of Chile’s Atacama Desert, are under threat from lithium mega-mining. Communities fighting back are on the frontline of the fight for just transition and climate justice.

For over 70 years, the state of Israel has subjected the Palestinian people to its brutal regime of control.

Tackling the climate crisis requires a radical transformation of our societies and economies, but our trade rules stand in the way.

As the UK hosts the annual United Nations climate change summit, COP26 (31 October to 12 November), we ask what negotiations that deliver real climate justice would look like.

We condemn Israel's attack on leading Palestinian civil society groups

As the UK hosts world leaders in Glasgow this November, we know that moving the dial from climate inaction towards climate justice will only be possible through our collective action.

Corporate courts, facilitated by the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), are enriching fossil fuel companies at the expense of climate action.