ICN Sunday Morning: The Secretive System Enabling Billion-Dollar Payouts

Go behind the scenes with Inside Climate News' executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Katie Surma as they discuss the secretive system forcing big payouts to fossil fuel companies. Big companies use free trade agreements to extract millions, even billions, of dollars from poor developing countries through a shadowy system known as investor-state dispute settlement. Katie explains how ISDS gives corporations surprisingly expansive rights, the harmful impact that has on people and the environment, and why it’s been able to continue for so long with so little public oversight.Read the series: https://insideclimatenews.org/project... Explore Katie’s reporting: https://insideclimatenews.org/profile... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate