Climate injustice: How corporate courts block climate action

Climate injustice: How corporate courts block climate action

Date: 31 March 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Trade

Corporate courts give fossil fuel companies the power to sue governments for taking action on the climate emergency.

They are an obstacle to a clean energy transition and to achieving climate justice. Including corporate courts in new trade deals that the UK is trying to do could set them in stone for the future – like in the trade deal with Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Meanwhile existing bad corporate court deals, like the Energy Charter Treaty, are rearing their heads.

We need to call on the UK government to:

  • Drop corporate courts in the UK-Canada trade deal
  • Exit the Energy Charter Treaty
  • Stop joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

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