European Parliamentary Research Service By / February 28, 2022

ISDS decisions initiated since 2000

ISDS decisions initiated since 2000 with decisions in favour of investors; total awards (in current billion US dollars, left scale) and number of cases (right scale)

ISDS decisions initiated since 2000 with decisions in favour of investors; total awards (in current billion US dollars, left scale) and number of cases (right scale)

Figure 2 below shows the amount of damages awarded in the 185 ISDS cases launched since 2000 for which the decision was in favour of investors. The total amount awarded is $86 billion (in current value); 62 % of all cases concern less than $50 million in settlement amounts.
Remarkably, a very few cases represent the bulk of the awarded amounts: four cases make up 70 % of the total, namely Tethyan Copper v Pakistan (initiated in 2012, $4.1 billion) Veteran Petroleum v Russia (2005, $8.2 billion), ConocoPhilips v Venezuela (2007, $8.3 billion), and Hulley Enterprise v Russia (2005, $40 billion).

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