Trade and investment policy,Raw materials policy

Overexploitation in the raw materials sector

How corporations enforce their interests with investor lawsuits

In the newly published factsheet: "Predation in the raw materials sector - how corporations enforce their interests with investor lawsuits" is all about investors suing states. The text goes back to the roots of investment protection – as a mechanism to protect colonial investments from expropriation even after independence. Current cases in which mining companies, for example, use investor lawsuits to prevent sovereign commodity policies and environmental laws in the global South, including in El Salvador, Indonesia and South Africa, are also extensively examined.

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