7th EFILA Annual lecture “Energy Charter Treaty Arbitration and the Paris Agreement”

On 28 October 2021, Annette Magnusson delivered the 7th Annual EFILA Lecture in Brussels. The topic of her lecture concerned the relationship between the Energy Charter Treaty and the Paris Agreement, more specifically the question of whether Energy Charter Treaty Arbitrationand the Paris Agreement should be considered “friends or foes”.

First, Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos, Secretary-General of EFILA, welcomed both the physical and the digital attendees of the lecture. In this introduction, he also updated the audience on some exciting new developments at EFILA (including the impending establishment of a Young EFILA Network and the upcoming Call for Papers for the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review for the 2022 issue) and on some of the upcoming EFILA events (most notably, the 7th EFILA Annual Conference on 4 February 2022 at NautaDutilh’s offices in Amsterdam).

After that, Annette Magnusson started her lecture by pointing out that there should be no doubt that all lawyers have to play a pro-active role in accelerating the reduction of carbon emissions in the coming years. As John Kerry recently put it at a meeting of the American Bar Association: “you are all climate lawyers now“.

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