Bulletin #3 Environmental conflicts and free trade: impacts and resistance to free trade agreements and investment protection

CLACSO Working Group on Lex Mercatoria, Corporate Power and Human Rights
Bulletin: Corporate Power, the State, and Social Struggles. Notes from International Law and Political Economy
Year 3 – Issue #3 Environmental conflicts and free trade: impacts and resistance to free trade agreements and investment protection
June 2024

CONTENTS

1. An introductory overview of free trade and extractivism. Assessments and challenges of the struggles
   environmental
   Carla Poth
2. Keys to understanding the interplay between FTAs, BITs and extractivism in Ecuador. Cases from China and Canada
   David Fajardo Torres
3. Extractive Law and Lex Mercatoria from the Defense of Water and Santurbán in Colombia.
   Juan Camilo Sarmiento Lobo
4. The deepening of environmental conflicts as a result of the opening of trade policy in Peru
   Ana Romero Cano
5. Indirect expropriation in environmental conflicts in Latin America under BITs. Corporate powers laid bare
   C. Tahimí Suárez Rodríguez