Join us for the third dispute resolution forum! Do you think you heard enough of renewables? Join our first webinar and think again: both the design of the support schemes and the jurisprudence are constantly changing. The second webinar takes us to the battle field. Can litigation save us from the imminent catastrophe of climate change and prove once and for all that states are responsible for climate hazards? Beyond the court system, shareholders and financing institutions lead their own battle to ensure that businesses stop contributing to the climate crisis. Our third dispute resolution forum is an entirely online event – and our third webinar will focus on a hot topic: the virtual unreality of dispute resolution.
Renewable support schemes have been the starting point of numerous investment arbitrations. After Italy, Spain and Czech Republic, it was just a matter of time until the Energy Community Contracting Parties had to test the viability of their own support schemes. Despite structural problems in the Ukrainian electricity system, which also affected the feed-in tariff scheme, Ukraine has managed so far to avoid arbitrations; it may not be able to do so in the future. Going forward, what lessons can be drawn from the renewable energy arbitrations? Can the state ever design a bullet-proof support scheme, to withstand the test of arbitration and litigation, and to benefit customers, producers and investors equally?
