ITN Quarterly November 2015

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Features

• Does the Green Economy Need Investor–State Dispute Settlement?
• Conciliation and Arbitration Law: Times of Change in Investment Protection in Bolivia
• Safeguarding Sustainable Development: Financing for Development and the International Investment Regime
• Negotiations Kick Off on a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights

News in Brief

• UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas recommends abolishing current ISDS regime
• Investment Court System proposed by European Commission
• Deal reached on Trans-Pacific Partnership
• EU–U.S. negotiations: ISDS on hold and controversy on a leaked EU proposal for the sustainable development chapter; secrecy in TTIP negotiations still a concern

Awards and Decisions

• ICSID tribunal renders interim decision on Ecuador’s environmental counterclaim in long-running dispute
• First ICSID case brought by Chinese mainland investors dismissed on jurisdictional grounds
• Tribunal largely adopts independent expert’s damages findings in USD 405 million award to previous owners of an Argentine public utility company
• Energorynok had no ownership or control over energy-related economic activity; ECT case against Moldova dismissed

Resources and Events