FGG SOMO ToC 2: Improved Trade and Investment SOMO will work together with the other members of the Fair, Green and Global Alliance to ensure that trade and investment advances socially just, inclusive and environmentally sustainable development. Governments must be able to regulate in society’s interest. The current global trade and investment regime has helped create and exacerbate governance gaps that adversely affect society, expanding the rights of corporations while diminishing the policy options available to governments. Policies promoting trade and investment have overlooked the potentiality of negative impacts, putting them at odds with commitments on policy coherence for development. SOMO contributes to this goal through strategies on trade and investment treaties and agreements, and on theme-specific policies affecting trade and investment. Activities include doing research, capacity building, advocacy, organizing public events, facilitate the exchange of information, filing complaints at judicial or non-judicial complaint mechanisms, and contributing to the activities of the other FGG members. The work in this program is organized in dossiers to enable cooperation between alliance members. The specific activities of SOMO are described below. In the dossier Towards trade justice and democracy: Challenging the current free trade model, SOMO will work on developing research evidence and policy proposals for economic justice solutions and communicating and making visible existing sustainable economy initiatives built upon economic justice principles, such as those included in the Alternative Trade Model. SOMO will specifically research and expose the impacts of financial sector deregulation and regulatory cooperation in Free Trade Agreements and their impacts for global public goods (e.g. financial stability) and developing countries. In the dossier Towards an alternative investment model: Challenging investors’ rights, SOMO and her (FGG) partners will foster knowledge development by monitoring and researching government policies such as the EU investor-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS) reform agenda and state of play of ISDS negotiations between the EU and key Southern countries. Together with Southern partners, the FGG members will produce analysis of the investment chapters in TTIP and CETA negotiations and other activities to challenge ISDS. These activities will contribute to increasing capacity of civil society actors as well as to the development of alternative policy approaches to the current trade and investment regime. SOMO will campaign on ISDS and work on media outreach. SOMO together with Indonesian partners will carry out research on impacts of investment policies and investment treaty provisions in Indonesia. Additionally, SOMO will carry out joint lobby and advocacy towards European institutions, in the Netherlands and Indonesia with the aim to end the harmful impact of investment treaties and propose alternatives. In the dossier Climate and energy: Transitioning to more socially and environmentally just energy systems, SOMO will conduct research on the links and relationships between different corporate and state actors in various national energy systems and energy supply chains in order to identify the drivers behind unsustainable energy projects. SOMO will document and publish the behaviour of corporate and state actors who drive the unsustainable energy systems, and who have an interest in the continuation of these unsustainable practices. SOMO in collaboration with TNI will conduct research on the local impacts of energy-related projects that will benefit advocacy and enforce interventions by other FGG members and partners.