Kluwer: The Withdrawal by the EU and some Member States from the Energy Charter Treaty: International Protection for Energy Investments and Climate Change Related Carve-outs

Published on August 5, 2024

By Anna De Luca (Macchi di Cellere Gangemi)

The present post focuses on the latest European development on the modernization of the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”). It will do so by putting it in a broader geopolitical context and linking it to the fossil fuel-related investments carve-out, not originally envisaged in the EU proposal. It will then analyse carve-outs in investment treaties in...