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August 20, 2026Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law

From obligation to allocation: Reframing climate disputes in ISDS through CBDR

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GFGu Fang

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Doctrinal analysis demonstrates how differentiated responsibility principles reframe investment arbitration, highlighting equitable allocation of climate transition costs.

Key Points

  • To assess how international investment arbitration addresses climate-related disputes and advance an allocation-based framework using the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR).
  • Conducted a doctrinal and normative legal analysis of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms and international environmental law principles.
  • Evaluated the operationalization of CBDR across standard investment arbitration doctrines, focusing on legitimate expectations, indirect expropriation, and remedies.
  • Revealed that prevailing obligation-centred ISDS models inappropriately treat climate change merely as a state justification, misallocating the costs of the green transition.
  • Demonstrated that CBDR possesses sufficient normative density through treaty practice and intragenerational equity to guide arbitral reasoning.
  • Showed that introducing capacity and contribution metrics enables tribunals to balance climate risks and transition costs bilaterally within existing legal doctrines.

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Gu Fang (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b5ff8a91293e6a1cdaa5https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.70082
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