Crash courses: The Energy Charter Treaty’ dirty secrets

Meet the Energy Charter Treaty – the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon to attack climate action

During this 1-hour online crash course on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon to challenge climate action will be unveiled.

A large number of civil society groups from all over Europe has just launched a petition to end the climate-killing agreement. To allow many different people to participate, the same course will be offered at different times on the same day (4 March 2021, 1-2 pm and 7-8pm CET).

To register for the midday-version starting at 1pm CET, please click here: https://tinyurl.com/MeetTheECT-Lunch
To register for the evening-version starting at 7pm CET, please click here: https://tinyurl.com/MeetTheECT-Evening

The crash course will zoom in on the arcane ECT and address questions like:

• what is the ECT and where does it come from?
• how can polluters use it to undermine climate action?
• who benefits?
• how can we get out?

After 30 minutes of introductory videos and presentations, there will be plenty of time for your questions – and for sharing our action plan to bring down the ECT.

The crash-courses are organised by: ClientEarth, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, Hiilivapaa Suomi, PowerShift, Transnational Institute, Umanotera, and Urgewald.