Land and Climate Review
Investigations, features and opinion on land-use and the climate crisis.
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- "The devastation Ukraine has suffered under Russian invasion has been observed worldwide, but an accompanying threat has gone unnoticed: the rise of secretive legal challenges from foreign corporations..." Camille Corcoran in a new LCR investigation: www.landclimate.org/... 🧵1/7
- Since being invaded in 2022, Ukraine has faced 8 ISDS claims, which “are a mechanism built into many bilateral and multilateral treaties that enables governments to be sued by foreign investors if their investment in that country is threatened". www.landclimate.org/... 🧵2/7
- Corcoran previously interviewed Dr Patricia Ranald, convener of AFTINET, who noted “With national court systems you have independent judges, you have a system of precedents. ISDS doesn’t have any of that.” www.landclimate.org/... 🧵3/7
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View full thread"There is a deep asymmetry in the aggressor destroying infrastructure and taking lives while the defender faces multibillion claims for sanctioning suspicious investors,” said Svitlana Romanko, Founder of RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 www.landclimate.org/... 🧵/end
- “What Trump is after is an expansion of American territory that would make him a historic president.” @alimacewen.bsky.social is joined by @cryopolitics.com to examine Greenland’s complex history and her views on the reasons behind US threats of annexation. www.landclimate.org/us-greenland/
- “Carbon capture is a ‘miracle’ technology that causes more harm than good, serving primarily as a means for the fossil fuel industry to reinvent itself.” Read an excerpt from Mark Z. Jacobson's new book, “Still No Miracles Needed” Cambridge University Press www.landclimate.org/...
