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Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights : Analyzing the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
Letnar Cernic, Jernej - 2009
This article analyses the Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy of the International Labour Organization. It argues that given the current lack of a legally binding international document on human rights obligations of corporations, the focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204696
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The Principle of Sustainable Development and Best Available Technology Under International Law
Merkouris, Panos - 2014
This chapter will provide an introduction to the notions of Sustainable Development and ‘best available techniques’ (BATs), which appear ever so often in treaties and other international legal documents. The aim is to demonstrate the rising importance and usefulness of such notions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037709
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Canada : renewable energy ; implications for WTO law on green and not-so-green subsidies
Charnovitz, Steve; Fischer, Carolyn - 2014
In the first dispute on renewable energy to come to WTO dispute settlement, the domestic content requirement of Ontario's feed-in tariff was challenged as a discriminatory investment-related measure and as a prohibited import substitution subsidy. The panel and Appellate Body agreed that Canada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426197
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Border adjustment mechanisms : elements for economic, legal, and political analysis
Bueb, Julien; Richieri Hanania, Lilian; Le Clézio, Alice - 2016
This paper examines, from a multidisciplinary perspective, plausible hypotheses for implementation of border carbon adjustment mechanisms, seen as a complement to strong environmental regulation. It highlights economic, legal, and political difficulties raised by border carbon adjustments. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447295
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Investment treaty law, sustainable development and responsible business conduct : a fact finding survey
Gordon, Kathryn M.; Pohl, Joachim; Bouchard, Marie J. - 2014
Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be silent on investors’ responsibilities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463418
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Introduction to ‘Sustainable Development in World Investment Law’
Newcombe, Andrew - 2014
in Sustainable Development in World Trade Law. The volume's goal is to analyse the state of international investment law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068392
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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014
resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068619
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International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice (Executive Summary and Background Paper)
Carlson, Jonathan C. - 2014
This background paper to the Climate Legacy Initiative project assesses whether existing international environmental law is adequate to address the challenge of global climate change. It considers both current treaty rules governing climate change and customary principles of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070456
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and Sustainable Development : Are the African Reform Approaches a Possible Way out of the Global IIA Crisis?
Zagel, Gudrun Monika - 2020
The paper seeks to examine the African International Investment Agreement (IIA) reform approaches and their viability to reconcile investment protection and sustainable development. The first part examines African experiences with traditional IIAs and identifies their main impediments to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835095