The Energy Charter Treaty is an international agreement which protects the production of fossil fuel worldwide and therefore threatens our capacity to lead a green transition. The sixth negotiation round of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) modernisation process drew to a close on 9 July 2021, with two more yet to come later this year. This now marks one year of negotiations with virtually no concrete developments to show for it. As such, the efficiency and the success of such negotiation rounds are to be called into question. Considering the ecological urgency, Generation Climate Europe, a coalition of youth-led networks at the European level, calls for European leaders to place the ECT at the top of their agendas and adopt ambitious measures without which we will never be able to meet our environmental objectives.
