Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), in association with Steptoe LLP, hosted Session 3 of our four-part webinar series, Candid Reflections on Resource-Based Development. Mining has highly ...

CCSI’s Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture provides an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the challenges and opportunities of agricultural investments. The program is ...

In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community—the predecessor of the European Union (EU)—spearheaded an initiative to promote international cooperation in the energy sector, particularly with ...

After six years of intense discussions, UNCITRAL's Working Group III (WGIII) is set to deliver its first outputs to the Commission in July 2023. These outputs consist of several significant documents, ...

Note: CCSI submitted a response to the OECD public consultation on investment treaties and climate change that builds on the text of this piece. Existing investment treaties do not and cannot advance ...

CCSI’s new report Harms from Concentrated Industries: A Primer looks at the rise of market concentration and the significant challenges it poses to sustainable development. Market concentration within ...

In this week's EU–South Africa summit, the European Commission is launching talks with South Africa on the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP). Designing CTIPs to foster ...

Proponents of including investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in treaties, contracts, and even national laws argue that ISDS is necessary because domestic courts are “inadequate.” [2] ...

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline’s construction permits and halting the pipeline as utterly incompatible with U.S. commitments ...

To examine how industry giants incorporate climate considerations into their business plans, this analysis considers companies that are ranked within the top ten of their sectors based on market ...

Understanding the diverse types of climate change-related risks is crucial for developing effective strategies to address the global climate crisis. A holistic yet disaggregated approach allows for a ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has expressed the scientific consensus that global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from human activities must “decline by about 45% from 2010 ...