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Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development

Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development

Author: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger; Ted Gleason; Sean Stephenson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781789908923
Published In: April 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This cutting-edge Research Handbook examines how investment law and policy can foster or frustrate sustainable development goals and accords. Expert authors explore opportunities for environmental, social, and economic rules to shape international investment flows, advancing global sustainability and justice.

Featuring contributions from leading professors and practitioners, the Research Handbook analyzes innovative legal procedures including sustainability impact assessment, examines new treaty provisions advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and considers emerging practices in dispute resolution. Chapters evaluate evolving international investment rules in light of recent law and policy changes, outlining strategies for incentivising more sustainable development. Ultimately, they argue that international law can and should guide investment decisions which affect human rights, environmental protection and poverty eradication.

Presenting novel proposals, this Research Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and practitioners in international investment law, environmental law, human rights law, and sustainable development law. Its insights will also benefit policy leaders in governments, tribunals and international organizations.

Preface xxii

Acknowledgements xxiii

Table of treaties and statutes xxiv

Table of cases lvii

FOUNDATIONS FOR ANALYSIS

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Ted Gleason and Sean Stephenson

Contributions of international investment law to the Sustainable Development Goals

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Ted Gleason and Tooba Shahzad

EVOLVING INVESTMENT PROTECTION REGIMES IN LIGHT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SCOPING INVESTMENT RELATIONSHIPS

Definitions of investment and investors

Stefanie Schacherer and August Reinisch

Impact assessment of investment agreements for sustainable development

Markus W. Gehring and Christoph U. Priess

Advances in investment screening under EU law

Steffen Hindelang and Andreas Moberg

EVALUATING INVESTMENT LAW PRINCIPLES

Full protection and security and environmental considerations

Ulyana Bardyn and Levon Golendukhin

Public interest measures, expropriation and sustainable development

Ted Gleason

Proportionality, standards of investment protection, and sustainable development

Gebhard Bucheler and Eric Belgorodski

Substantive standards and sustainable development as a sword and shield

Jeff Sullivan KC and Stephanie Collins

INVESTMENT TREATY COMMITMENTS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

10.

Investment instruments in treaties on SDGs 2 (zero hunger) and 6 (water)

Damilola Olawuyi and Alex Oche

11.

Reconciliation of private investment protection and SDG 3 public health

Freya Baetens

12.

Claims, third-party funding and SDGs 5 (gender) and 16 (justice and governance)

Annie Lesperance, Dana MacGrath and Gian Marco Solas

13.

Achieving SDG 7 clean energy through international investment law, and beyond

Avidan Kent

14.

Investment treaties and SDGs 8 (work), 9 (infrastructure) and 11 (cities)

J Anthony VanDuzer

15.

Investment treaties and SDG 13 (climate action)

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Markus W. Gehring, Marios Tokas, Javiera Caceres Bustamante and Matheus Frederico Paes Garcia

16.

Sustainable development and international trade and investment: pathways for future ambition on SDGs 13 (climate action), 14 (oceans), and 15 (biodiversity)

Freedom-Kai Phillips

17.

International investment, SDG 16 (justice and governance) and trade regimes

Alexandra Harrington

EMERGING PRIORITIES IN SUSTAINABILITY AND INVESTMENT DEBATES

18.

Crafting more sustainable investor-state dispute settlement procedures through the UNCITRAL ISDS reform process

Susanna Kam

19.

The contribution of international financial institutions to international sustainable development law

Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo

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