Halting the ongoing global loss of biodiversity will require extensive phase-out of harmful production. A significant … income losses. To examine the impact of investment treaties on biodiversity protection, this paper studies a setting with … is harmful to biodiversity, and how this in turn reduces the host country's willingness to phase out the stranded …

Protecting biodiversity will require the phase-out of harmful production at a large scale. However, some of these … bilateral investment treaties they are parties to, that pose the most severe threat to biodiversity protection. It assumes that … foreign investment positions, and (iii) in countries with vulnerable biodiversity. To operationalize these notions, the paper …

hotly contested topic, examining the implications of land deals in Africa both for its people and for world agriculture and …