一家国际法庭命令厄瓜多尔向Chevron支付2.2亿美元,支持该公司对亚马逊地区环境损害的索赔。
An international tribunal ordered Ecuador to pay Chevron $220 million, backing the company's claim over environmental damage in the Amazon.
一个国际法庭命令厄瓜多尔在长达数十年的亚马逊地区与德士古公司业务有关的环境损害争端中,以违反投资保护为由,向Chevron支付2.2亿美元。
An international tribunal has ordered Ecuador to pay Chevron $220 million, citing violations of investment protections, in a decades-long dispute over environmental damage in the Amazon linked to Texaco’s operations.
这项裁决维持了Chevron对投资者-国家仲裁的运用, 引起批评, 指责它破坏了先前95亿美元的厄瓜多尔法院判决,
The ruling, which upholds Chevron’s use of investor-state arbitration, draws criticism for undermining a prior $9.5 billion Ecuadorian court judgment that found the company liable for pollution harming Indigenous communities.
倡导者认为,该决定有利于公司利益,而不是环境正义,并可能开创一个先例,在环境案件中削弱国家主权。
Advocates argue the decision favors corporate interests over environmental justice and could set a precedent that weakens national sovereignty in environmental cases.