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The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment, the Right to Development and the Un Sustainable Development Goals

Fauchald, Ole Kristian - 2020

How can foreign direct investment contribute to fulfil the right to development and realize some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? The chapter consider this question by focusing on the role of international law and intergovernmental institutions that deal with three aspects of foreign...

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The Millennium Development Goals : Milestones or Millstones? Human Rights Priorities for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Darrow, Mac - 2015

In September 2010, world ... …

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment : Climate Change Report

Knox, John H. - 2016

This report describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate-related actions. The...

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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...

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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...

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Strategies to Balance Energy Security, Business, Trade and Sustainable Development

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2021

Energy is pivotal for socio-economic and cultural development. Last century witnessed a drastic increase, on one hand on the consumption of energy and, on the other on greenhouse gases emissions. Traditionally, energy security has been linked with the need to guarantee supply and, in turn,...

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Energy Charter Treaty's Investor Protection Provisions : Potential to Foster Solutions to Global Warming and Promote Sustainable Development

Sussman, Edna - 2014

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is the only multi-lateral treaty that deals specifically with the energy sector. It must be carefully reviewed to see if it can play a role in addressing climate change. The importance of international investment in the energy sector in the developing countries...

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World Trade Organization, Renewable Energy Subsidies and the Case of Feed-In Tariffs : Time for Reform Toward Sustainable Development?

Farah, Paolo Davide; Cima, Elena - 2016

Renewable energy subsidies are crucial for combatting climate change, and yet the world’s international legal … infrastructure is not designed to accommodate such subsidies. The world needs a renewable energy sector to develop and implement the … against each other: cultivation of renewable energy and prevention of unfair trade practices. The World Trade Organization …

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Reconciling International Investment Law and Sustainable Development : Necessity or Luxury?

Dubava, Ilze - 2010

The paper aims at studying the potential accommodation of the concept of sustainable development within the regime of international law regulating foreign direct investment (FDI). Reconciliation of international investment law and sustainable development is part of the current awareness of...

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Bilateral investment treaties and sustainable development

Gazzini, Tarcisio - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 15 (2014) 5/6, pp. 929-963

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