{"id":17050,"date":"2026-04-21T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=17050"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:47:25","slug":"canada-and-india-relaunch-investment-treaty-talks-with-climate-and-green-energy-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2026\/04\/21\/canada-and-india-relaunch-investment-treaty-talks-with-climate-and-green-energy-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and India Relaunch Investment Treaty Talks with Climate and Green Energy Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2026, Prime Ministers Mark Carney and Narendra Modi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/en\/news\/readouts\/2025\/11\/23\/prime-minister-carney-meets-prime-minister-india-narendra-modi\">formally relaunched<\/a> negotiations in New Delhi for a modernised investment chapter to replace the terminated Canada-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The framework prioritises critical minerals and uranium supply\u2014anchored by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cameco.com\/media\/news\/cameco-signs-long-term-uranium-supply-agreement-with-india\">CAD 2.6 billion long\u2011term uranium supply agreement<\/a>\u2014and explicitly affirms the state\u2019s right to regulate for climate and social\u2011equity objectives. The negotiating framework embeds environmental carve\u2011outs and targets a USD 50 billion bilateral trade goal by 2030, aligning investment protection with green\u2011industrial policy and Indo\u2011Pacific supply\u2011chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mea.gov.in\/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl\/40839\/IndiaCanada_Joint_Leaders_Statement_March_02_2026\">resilience<\/a>. This shift moves both states away from \u201cfirst\u2011generation\u201d treaties that exposed governments to broad investor claims. If finalised, the CEPA investment chapter could serve as a model for integrating climate\u2011aligned regulatory space into modern investment agreements.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2026, Prime Ministers Mark Carney and Narendra Modi formally relaunched negotiations in New Delhi for a modernised investment chapter to replace the terminated Canada-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":17205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[1900],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-current-issue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17051,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions\/17051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}