Exiting ISDS: An initiative to phase out a major obstacle to climate action

This official side event at this year’s COP, aimed at encouraging the UNFCCC to take an official position in favour of ISDS phase out, and encouraging countries to go ‘ISDS-free’ forms part of an initiative that will run from COP 30 to COP 31 next year:

Exiting ISDS: An initiative to phase out a major obstacle to climate action

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025, 15:00-16:30
Room: Side Event Room 7

This official side event at this year’s COP, aimed at encouraging the UNFCCC to take an official position in favour of ISDS phase out, and encouraging countries to go ‘ISDS-free’ forms part of an initiative that will run from COP 30 to COP 31 next year:

Speakers:

• Irene Vélez Torres, Colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
• Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change & Human Rights
• Nick Dearden, Global Justice Now, UK
• Herbert Kafeero, SEATINI, Uganda
• Raul Gabriel Benet Keil, Teponanaztle, Mexico

This event is co-organised by Global Justice Now, Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI), ABColombia, the Transnational Institute, War on Want and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).