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Can existing international agreements on ‘investment facilitation’ advance sustainable development, climate action, and human rights?

CCSI | 1-Dec-2023

Terminating investment treaties and withdrawing advance consent to ISDS would allow governments to clear the path from problematic treaties centered on investment protection and ISDS, which in practice benefit unsustainable investment.

keywords: alternatives , climate , environment , human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS

Interview with Nicolás M. Perrone: Investment treaties and the legal imagination

ILA Reporter | 20-Apr-2021

The unusual status of foreign investors in international law is no accident, but rather the result of a “world-making project realized by a coalition of business leaders, bankers, and their lawyers in the 1950s and 1960s”.

keywords: alternatives , investor-state disputes | ISDS

Russel Norman – climate change and free trade

Daily Blog | 21-Feb-2019

The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues.

keywords: alternatives , climate , investor-state disputes | ISDS , New Zealand

Towards a peoples charter on international trade agreements

Parti Sosialis Malaysia | 30-Jan-2018

It is now time we open up the dialogue on the kind of trade agreements that we want to see in place.

keywords: agriculture | farmers | food , alternatives , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Malaysia , medicines , sovereignty | democracy

Conferencia de alto nivel de la UNCTAD sobre los AIIs: Avanzando en el abordaje de los acuerdos internacionales de inversión de la generación anterior

IISD | 11-Jan-2018

Más de 300 expertos, incluyendo a negociadores de alto nivel de acuerdos internacionales de inversión (AIIs) y representantes de organizaciones intergubernamentales, sociedad civil, sector académico y sector privado se reunieron en Ginebra.

keywords: alternatives , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS

Conférence de haut-niveau de la CNUCED sur les AII : poursuivre l’examen des Accords internationaux d’investissement d’ancienne génération

IISD | 22-Dec-2017

Plus de 300 experts, notamment des négociateurs de haut-niveau d’accords internationaux d’investissement et des représentants d’organisations intergouvernementales, de la société civile ainsi que des secteurs universitaires et privés se sont réunis à Genève

keywords: alternatives , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS

UNCTAD’s 2017 high-level IIA conference: moving forward on addressing older-generation international investment agreements

IISD | 22-Dec-2017

More than 300 experts, including high-level negotiators of international investment agreements and representatives from intergovernmental organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector convened in Geneva.

keywords: alternatives , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , reformed ISDS

CETA : le compte n’y est toujours pas sur le climat

Alternatives Economiques | 9-Nov-2017

Plusieurs modifications indispensables auraient dû être apportées au CETA pour le rendre climato-compatible.

keywords: alternatives , Canada , climate , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS

Responsible investment provisions in international investment treaties: where next?

IIED | 23-Oct-2017

How international investment treaties could promote more responsible investment and argues that, while some innovative practices are emerging, there is still much to do.

keywords: alternatives , human rights , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , land , reformed ISDS