News and Analysis

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.

Our report ‘Secrets and Fries’ exposes how McDonald’s has been driving billions in global profits through the City of London, but not stopping to pay its share of UK tax.

A waiver would remove a huge barrier preventing poorer countries from protecting their people.

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.

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.

A webinar exploring corporate courts (ISDS) – the secretive tribunals written into trade deals that enable corporations to sue countries for billions of pounds.

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

We face a clear choice: continue tweaking the same failing global systems, or reimagine the world where the principles of protecting people and the planet come first.