There must be a foundation of trust, along with a clear plan to protect vulnerable segments of the population and, ideally, to phase in the reforms gradually.
This report presents a Mining Policy Framework (MPF) Assessment for Ecuador, with a view to helping the government target its efforts in implementing its MPF.
This amicus curiae brief focuses on the investor-State arbitration under the UNCITRAL arbitration rules with Chevron Corporation as the Claimant, and the Republic of Ecuador as the Respondent.
On April 18, 2011 the arbitral tribunal in Chevron v. Ecuador issued a procedural order rejecting the application made by two non-governmental organization petitioners—the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Fundación Pachamama—to serve as amici curiae in the jurisdiction phase of that dispute brought pursuant to the U.S.-Ecuador investment treaty.