Cleodie Rickard
@cleodierickard
Followers
82
Following
362
Media
1
Statuses
151
Trade justice campaigner @GlobalJusticeUK, activist
Joined April 2017
In the @guardian talking about the UK facing an ISDS case for halting the Cumbria coal mine. We warned them. The lawyer representing the investors is none other than a sitting Tory MP - the scandalous icing on the cake of a regime of corporate ransom https://t.co/7kkrElUEtc
theguardian.com
Singapore firm using secretive international legal system to seek compensation for climate concerns blocking plans
0
1
4
@GeorgeMonbiot Tell the UK to call time on corporate courts - no secret weapon for fossil fuel companies and big business in our trade deals! 👇 https://t.co/ocg2WisWM7
act.globaljustice.org.uk
The UK has just been sued, via corporate courts, for halting a controversial coal mine. It follows the government saying in its trade strategy that it would continue inserting Investor-State Dispute
0
0
0
@GeorgeMonbiot covers the issue of these corporate courts in great detail here - share widely! https://t.co/7LSOj5fJDn
theguardian.com
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
1
1
0
Quoted in @thetimes today. ISDS claims aren't just coming for climate action, but can challenge all kinds of govt policy. Why hand multinationals and oligarchs such power to bypass democracy? The UK must #StopISDS
https://t.co/QivbHAeYCi
thetimes.com
Mikhail Fridman was sanctioned by Britain after the invasion of Ukraine because of his investments in Russia’s largest non-state bank
1
1
0
One of Putin’s oligarchs is holding the British government to ransom in a corporate court. One more reason we need to ditch all ISDS treaties. Why are ministers still defending this toxic system? My colleague @cleodierickard in the Times today 👇 https://t.co/LDBgGfCQnq
thetimes.com
Mikhail Fridman was sanctioned by Britain after the invasion of Ukraine because of his investments in Russia’s largest non-state bank
0
7
7
Today: - Read @GeorgeMonbiot on corporate courts - Share widely - Take action 👇 #ExitISDS
https://t.co/Z1fXPPlusy
https://t.co/SxdEU1xG8v
0
3
2
🚨 NEW: The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court 🚨 Mikhail Maratovich Fridman - one of the wealthiest individuals in the world - has brought a case against the UK under #ISDS
https://t.co/3UqhKfgh6Y
globaljustice.org.uk
THE UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed. Answering a question in Parliament from Labour MP Martin Rhodes […]
1
8
4
ISDS cases soar as rich countries try to secure access to critical minerals and fossil fuels. This is what ISDS was always about - neocolonial economics. Any country that wants sovereignty over its resources: ditch this toxic system. https://t.co/7JqLWycD6V
reuters.com
Disagreements between governments and investors over resources are at a 10-year high, law firm DLA Piper said, driven by resource nationalism and growing competition between the U.S. and China for...
0
5
4
Great piece on ISDS: “The ending of slavery was only possible because slave-owners were compensated. 40% of Treasury tax receipts were paid to slave owners. Nothing compares to the horrors of slavery, but are we witnessing a similar phenomenon…” 1/2 https://t.co/frE3hmA4Mb
lawgazette.co.uk
A case almost unknown to the British public raises profound questions of justice in the UK.
1
7
9
"It is time to treat the Israeli regime just as we did apartheid South Africa...trade sanctions would be fully justified." Important from @HumzaYousaf in @politicshome today
politicshome.com
The UK should use trade sanctions to pressure Israel as it did against apartheid South Africa.
0
7
16
"Global Justice Now said ISDS is increasingly used to 'challenge necessary climate action' and they are calling for the government to withdraw from such agreements." Our campaign to end ISDS in our trade deals referenced in this piece 👇🏽 https://t.co/t0cvyS8uVi
bbc.com
Investors are using an international trade law to claim compensation.
1
5
4
In @BBCNews, on how ISDS treaties "freeze in time an investor's special rights to expect to make a certain amount of profit in another country, which is fundamentally at odds with that country's sovereign right... to legislate in the public interest." https://t.co/Vsy2oygFwd
bbc.com
Investors are using an international trade law to claim compensation.
0
3
3
"Instead of pouring public money into weapons with a hollow claim of growth and jobs, the moment demands a proactive green industrial strategy." Read our trade campaign manager @cleodierickard's latest piece for @ClimateHome here 👇 https://t.co/PFACqOwORS
climatechangenews.com
New research shows renewable energy goals could be met with the amount of minerals produced today - but the military industry wants more
2
3
3
My piece on our critical minerals research in @ClimateHome: "The data shows no argument against pursuing an energy transition, but the path we take matters: ‘private sufficiency, public luxury’ is not only politically desirable but materially necessary." https://t.co/DjgJz7YFNx
climatechangenews.com
New research shows renewable energy goals could be met with the amount of minerals produced today - but the military industry wants more
0
0
0
We always hear that we'll need a mining boom for the "critical" minerals of the future. Where's the evidence? Our research @GlobalJusticeUK finds renewable energy goals could largely be met within current production – but militarisation is driving demand https://t.co/QcFIwvXnQT
globaljustice.org.uk
Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by UK play no major role in the green transition - and are driven in a large way by militarisation.
1
5
5
"We’ve been calling on the government to scrap ISDS in its trade deals for years, to stop exactly this eventuality: fossil fuel companies suing us over necessary climate action." - Our campaigner @cleodierickard quoted in The @Guardian 👇🏽 https://t.co/FViqn5WeMV
theguardian.com
Singapore firm using secretive international legal system to seek compensation for climate concerns blocking plans
1
5
4
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Britain is being SUED - all because the High Court rightly ruled that the Cumbria coal mine must not go ahead over its climate impacts. Corporations should not be allowed to sue us for taking climate action! #EndISDS
https://t.co/ObABxc8QCb
1
18
21
The UK has finally been hit by an ISDS case, for halting the West Cumbria coal mine. We've been shouting about this risk for years: fossil fuel companies suing us over climate action. This is a wake up call -the UK must scrap ISDS from its trade deals https://t.co/u6WqFCpWry
0
10
10
"We can’t build a green future on the exploitation of poorer countries, and we don’t have to. We can achieve a green transition, but there’s a need to transform how our economy works." - @cleodierickard Our latest report covered in @the_ecologist 👇🏽 https://t.co/HVoVguOVQx
theecologist.org
Campaigners say green transition must not be hijacked by military industries or used to undermine the economies of developing countries.
2
2
3
🚨 NEW: Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by the UK play ‘no major role’ in the green transition, our research reveals 🚨 Our new briefing finds the often-harmful mining of these resources is being driven in a large way by militarisation https://t.co/kn5koJoOjs
5
22
30