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Hi John,
The UK is being sued for taking much needed climate action.
Yes, you read that right. A multinational fossil fuel company is dragging the UK into a ‘corporate court’ for halting a climate-wrecking coal mine in Cumbria.
If the fossil fuel giant wins, it won’t be the polluters who pay the price. It will be us, ordinary taxpayers, forced to cover the costs of their failed projects. And these claims can run into the millions and billions of pounds.

We’ve warned about these corporate courts hiding in trade deals for years: how they give corporations the power to block climate action, and line their own pockets at ordinary people’s expense. But the UK government ignored the risks. Now they can’t any longer!
This is where you come in. We need as much backing as possible, to push this information into the mainstream media and turn public outrage into action: the UK government needs to scrap corporate courts once and for all – now, before the next legal claim against climate action hits us.
Can you donate £5 today and give the campaign the push it urgently needs?
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As if corporate courts alone weren’t outrageous enough, the full story is even more shocking.

The lawyer representing the fossil fuel company suing the UK government is former attorney general Geoffrey Cox, who is also a sitting Conservative MP. This is a public servant who is cashing in on helping foreign investors penalise his own government’s climate policy at the expense of the people he’s supposed to represent.

Geoffrey Cox and his team acting for the West Cumbria Mining company are using the UK-Singapore investment treaty to launch its claim. That’s because corporate courts are often built into trade deals like this one.

Ultimately, last year the UK’s high court did the right thing when it deemed the Cumbria coal mine unlawful because of its climate impacts. But now, the UK is being punished by a reckless fossil fuel giant and its powerful representatives. All in the name of profit.
We need to create a groundswell of public pressure by organising protests, petitions, and media campaigns to shine a spotlight on this case. But we can't do this without funds. Are you able to donate today to make sure decision-makers hear us?
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The number of corporate court cases will only increase ever more rapidly unless we act.
Just two weeks ago – barely three weeks after the UK case was announced – UK-based Enwell Energy plc launched a claim against war-torn Ukraine, using the UK-Ukraine bilateral investment treaty.
Over $100 billion in public money has been awarded to corporations through corporate courts to date, with fossil fuel companies the biggest beneficiaries, raking in over $80 billion since 1998.
We urgently need to increase our campaigning efforts. But we need as much help as possible from supporters like you to make it successful. Every penny counts. So, if you are able to, please consider donating today.
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Thanks to people like you backing our campaigns, last year we were able to stop one of the biggest corporate court deals in the world: The Energy Charter Treaty.

The ECT win has strengthened the global movement against this shadow justice system by sending ripples through the wider web of investment treaties. More and more countries around the world are now pulling out of corporate courts treaties.
I know that we can push the UK government to do the same. But we need all the help we can get.
Thank you for your ongoing support and for being part of a movement for change.

Best wishes,

Cleodie Rickard,
Trade campaigner at Global Justice Now
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