Investment Contracts and Sustainable Development
Author: Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher: IIED
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1843697653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher: IIED
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1843697653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Manjiao Chi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1317284224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The current international investment law system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development. To better address sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, international investment agreements should be made more compatible with sustainable development. Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law presents an important systematic study of the issue of sustainable development in the international investment law system, using conceptual, normative and governance perspectives to explore the challenges and possible solutions for making international investment law more compatible with sustainable development. Chi suggests that to effectively address the sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, the international investment agreements system should be reformed. Such reform should feature redesigning the provisions of the agreements, improving the structure of international investment agreements, strengthening the function of soft law, engaging non-state actors and enhancing the dispute settlement mechanism. The book is primarily aimed at national and international treaty and policy-makers, lawyers and scholars. It is also suitable for graduate students studying international law and policy-making.
Author: John Anthony VanDuzer
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 605
ISBN-13: 1849290865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Guide is designed to assist developing countries to negotiate International Investment Agreements (IIAs) that are more effective in promoting their sustainable development. A useful reference tool for developing country negotiators and interested parties.
Author: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 9041131663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sustainable development, as defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development, is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." More specifically, sustainable development is a process of change that seeks to improve the collective quality of life by focusing on economically, socially, and environmentally sound projects that are viable in the long-term. Sustainable development requires structural economic change and the foundation of that change is investment. In developing nations with low levels of domestic savings, investment predictably comes from abroad in the form of foreign direct investment. A large and ever expanding number of international investment agreements are in place to govern these transactions. While these accords seek to foster development while mitigating the risk involved in these types investments, many questions remain unresolved. This highly insightful book reflects the contributions of a variety of world renowned experts each of which is designed to provide the reader with valuable perspective on recent developments in investment law negotiations and jurisprudence from a sustainable development law perspective. It offers answers to pertinent questions concerning advancements in investment law, including the negotiation of numerous regional and bilateral agreements as well as the increasing number of disputes resolved in the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), from different developed and developing country perspectives. It lays out future directions for new treaty negotiations and dispute settlement proceedings, as well as ongoing investment promotion efforts, against a background of rapidly evolving international relationships between economic, environment and development law. It focuses on key issues in investment laws which have emerged as priorities in the negotiation of bilateral and regional investment agreements, and have been clarified through recent decisions of the ICSID and other arbitral panel awards.
Author: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781895536553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cosimo Beverelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1108840884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A multi-disciplinary investigation of how economic globalization can help achieve the UN's 2030 Agenda, exploring trade-offs among the Goals.
Author: Jola Gjuzi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-05
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 3319972324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyzes the tension between the host state’s commitment to provide regulatory stability for foreign investors – which is a tool for attracting FDI and generating economic growth – and its evolving non-economic commitments towards its citizens with regard to environmental protection and social welfare. The main thesis is that the ‘stabilization clause/regulatory power antinomy,’ as it appears in many cases, contradicts the content and rationale of sustainable development, a concept that is increasingly prevalent in national and international law and which aims at the integration and balancing of economic, environmental, and social development. To reconcile this antinomy at the decision-making and dispute settlement levels, the book employs a ‘constructive sustainable development approach,’ which is based on the integration and reconciliation imperatives of the concept of sustainable development as well as on the application of principles of law such as non-discrimination, public purpose, due process, proportionality, and more generally, good governance and rule of law. It subsequently re-conceptualizes stabilization clauses in terms of their design (ex-ante) and interpretation (ex-post), yielding stability to the benefit of foreign investors, while also mitigating their negative effects on the host state’s power to regulate.
Author: Aaron Joseph Cosbey
Publisher: International Institute for sustainable development
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781895536881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book looks at the role played by international investment agreements (IIAs) ... in fostering sustainable development."--Executive summary.
Author: Stefanie Schacherer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 900446588X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law offers a clear and convincing assessment of how the EU contributes to the ongoing debate on sustainable development integration in international investment agreements.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9264652434
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable Development 2021 calls for collective action to address both the short-term collapse in resources of developing countries as well as long-term strategies to build back better following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.