Global ISDS Tracker | Database
Explore the Global ISDS Tracker database, which contains information on all publicly known 1362 ISDS cases. Information is updated annually.
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Explore the Global ISDS Tracker database, which contains information on all publicly known 1362 ISDS cases. Information is updated annually.
Each case has a brief description and a link to detailed information about the case. You can filter the cases by statute or use the provided search box to search the table.
By the end of 2023, investors had filed a total of 235 fossil fuel-related cases and at least 123 ISDS proceedings arose in relation to the renewable energy sector.
Our brief, The International Investment Legal Regime, Climate Change, and Human Rights: An Overview, explains how ISDS negatively impacts human rights and the environment, and examines how ISDS stands in direct confli...
The report was prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Professor David R. Boyd, and was published in July 2023. The report concludes that ISDS has become " a major obstacle to the ur...
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses in trade and investment agreements allow companies to take legal action against states and their climate protection measures. New data reveals the staggering scale of c...
Investments made unlawfully in breach of the host state's environmental laws – such as the regulations of (rain)forests and nature reserves, or laws on energy transition – could be denied treaty protection at the juri...
The ISDS case map was produced with the support of Friends of the Earth International.
The conflict between the protection of the environment and the privileges granted to foreign investments becomes apparent when environmental measures (that include climate measures) are claimed to breach investment pr...
This Note highlights trends in newly initiated ISDS cases and examines the total of 1,332 ISDS cases brought under investment treaties. Most disputes were brought by investors from developed countries against developi...