With corporate lawsuits against environmental protection

What do trade policy and environmental protection have to do with each other? More than you think, because trade agreements lay the foundations for billion-dollar corporate lawsuits against environmental protection. These lawsuits are also conducted under the name ISDS (Investor State Dispute Settlement) and give investors far-reaching special rights as well as access to parallel justice.

The above factsheet summarizes the most important points of our extensive case study, which we published together with Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, Campact, BUND, AbL and attac in January 2019.

Here you will find our extensive case study, which you can also order by post: Under pressure: With corporate lawsuits against environmental protection