In a milestone win for civil society, the EU will withdraw from the Climate Tracking Energy Charter Treaty, or ECT.

You, man on the moon, mom.

You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.

The UCT was designed in the 1990s to favor industry's interests

and was a powerful weapon to obstruct the kind of phase-out of fossil fuels

needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.

It should never have existed in the first place.

Hi, welcome.

I'm Joanna Lossin, comes officer at Corporate Europe Observatory or CEO.

In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, I will talk to Pia Eberhardt, former campaigner and researcher at CEO,

and Lucia Barsena, project coordinator at the Transnational Institute, or TNI,

to celebrate the decision of the EU to finally leave the Energy Charter Treaty.

I'm going to name a series of institutions now, but bear with me as it explains the sequence of

events that led to leaving the ECT.

So, the European Parliament's International Trade Committee voted in early April to adopt

the Commission's proposal that the EU withdraw from the Energy

Charter Treaty. The Belgian EU Presidency reached a deal with the European Commission

and Member States on the EU's withdrawal from the ECT and this has now been approved

by the European Parliament. In this episode I will alternate the interviews between Pia and Lucia. Try not to get

lost between them. Before I pass it over to them, it's worth recommending the reading of a report

co-written by CEO and TNI, called One Treaty to Rule Them All, which was maybe the first

in-depth report ever done about the ECT and its consequences.

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