On Tuesday 3 November, as the third round of negotiations on modernising the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was opening, 102 MEPs and 142 members of national parliaments urged the European Commission to ensure that the provisions in the ECT that protect foreign investment in fossil fuels are removed from the treaty.
“Phasing out fossil fuels from the ECT investment protection mechanism is for us a prerequisite for the negotiations on the modernisation of the ECT”, says the joint...