Original sentence: In October 2020, the Europen Parliament voted to end fossil fuel protection under the ECT.Russia and Norway refused to ratify the treaty, and Italy left in 2016, over environmental concerns about ECT
Edited sentence: "The EU Commission wants [the treaty] modernized, the UK government agrees with the EU[...].In many cases a company invests in a country and, at the first sign of trouble, they declare an international dispute.Mustaqeem de Gama, Counsellor at the South African Mission in Geneva, [...] believes other African countries should beware: 'The Treaty [...] imposes further restrictions and obligations on countries that may close off policy space available to them[...].The government in Pretoria [South Africa] has dismissed approaches by treaty representatives.The modernization process is moving at a snail’s pace.They basically circumvent local legal proceedings[...]’ ".This is part of a broader debate about Investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in free trade agreements.With claims already being seen in the billions of dollars, just the threat of an investor suing can cause watering down of climate policy