Climate Action is Everyone’s Business: 2019 is a pivotal year in the development of global climate policy with the UN seeking to raise ambition of commitments from states and other actors in line with the imperative to limit global warming to 1.5°C. ICC is committed to help raise ambition of climate action by business; encourage governments to review their nationally determined contributions upwards; provide input on enabling policy frameworks; and engage global ICC network to mobilize business action at scale.

The ICC Commission Report ‘Resolving Climate Change Related Disputes through Arbitration and ADR’ was prepared by the Task Force ‘Arbitration of Climate Change Related Disputes’ created by the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and benefited from the substantial input of the ICC Commission on Environment and Energy. The purpose of the Report is to:

  • Explore how arbitration and other dispute resolution services are currently used to resolve climate change related disputes.
  • Define climate change related disputes and uses hypothetical case studies to demonstrate the potential circumstances in which climate change related disputes may arise.
  • Offer guidance on specific features to effectively resolve climate change related disputes and includes sample wording for parties to be taken into consideration and where appropriate on a case-by-case basis.

The Report was unanimously approved by the Commission on Arbitration and ADR at its 2 April 2019 meeting in Paris. A global launch event will take place in Paris on 28 November 2019 (https://2go.iccwbo.org/icc-global-launch-climate-change-related-disputes.html), followed by a launch event in New York on 21 January 2020. The Report will be made available at www.iccwbo.org/commission-arbitration-ADR, with its Annex entitled ‘Climate Change Related Disputes in Practice’.

Acknowledgements

Task Force Co-Chairs: Wendy Miles and Patrick Thieffry

Task Force Members: Andrea Antoinette Ajibade, Valentina Allotti, Catherine Amirfar, Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Patrick Baeten, Hamideh Barmakhshad, Gordon Barry, Mary Begg-Saffar, Mouna Ben Thabet, Lyda Bier, Gordon Blanke, Víctor Bonnín Reynes, Dominique Brown-Berset, María Beatriz Burghetto, Nick Campbell, Cecilia Carrara, Polina Chtchelok, Ghada M. Darwish, Kate Davies, Risteard De Paor, Gabriel Del Favero, Jo Delaney, Martin Doe, Matthew Draper, Romain Dupeyré, Chien Te Fan, Joyce C. Fan, Nuno Ferreira Lousa, Eric Franco, José Manuel García Represa, Maria Gavouneli, Arshad Ghaffar, Jean-Christophe Honlet, Eleanor Hughes, Mahmoud Hussein Ali Ahmad, Sameer Jain, Justus Jansen, Günther John, Gordon Kaiser, Daniel Kalderimis, Tejas Karia, Moritz Keller, Behzad Khoie, Laurent Killias, Przemyslaw P. Krzywosz, Frances Lawson, Gaëlle Le Quillec, Crenguta Leaua, Elias Leon Guerrero, William K.W. Leung, Ralf Lindbäck, Gianna Macchiavello, Adrián Magallanes Pérez, Annette Magnusson, Yuri Makhonin, Gerard Meijer, Christa Mueller García, Aisha Nadar, Amanda Neil, Edgar Neira, Kirsten Odynski, Kevin O’Gorman, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu, Rene Ortiz, Nicola Peart, Flip Petillion, Justin Petterson, Denis Philippe, Marija Pujo Tadic, Pedro Raposo, Evgeny Raschevsky, Louise Reilly, Ivone Rocha, Friedrich Rosenfeld, Jonathan Ruff, Pedro Saghy, Jose Vicente B. Salazar, Isabel San Martin, George Sarpong, Matthias Schlingmann, Jeffery Sewell, Jessica Simor, Nicole Smith, Ana Stanic, Ronald Sum, Edna Sussman, Nicola Swan, Mary Thomson, Christopher To, Thierry Tomasi, Nikolaus Vavrovsky, Maria Vicien-Milburn, John Walton, Jihong Wang, Tomasz Wardynski, Dennis Wilson, Tore Wiwen-Nilsson, Pijan Wu, Chengyang Xie, José Vicente Zapata

ICC Officers: Carita Wallgren-Lindholm (Chair Commission on Arbitration and ADR), Hélène van Lith (Secretary to the Commission on Arbitration and ADR), Majda Dabaghi (Director - Inclusive and Green Growth), with the assistance of Sandra Hanni and Jennifer Jones.