Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards
Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Hardcover, xxvii + 470pp, NOT ex-library. A diagonal fold (straightened) to the upper outer corner of two leaves; limited gentle wear to lower outer corners. Else interior is very good, clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Boards show shelfwear; published without a dust jacket. -- Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct). -- Contents: Part I. Protecting the Environment in the 21st Century: The Role of the Private Sector: 1. International Environmental Law: Looking at the Past to Shape the Future / Pierre-Marie Dupuy; 2. Private Sector and the Challenge of Implementation / Francesco Francioni; 3. Political Environment of Environmental Law / Urs Luterbacher; 4. Applicability of International Environmental Law to Private Enterprises / Sandrine Maljean-Dubois & Vanessa Richard; 5. Economics of Green Economies: Investment in Green Growth and How It Works / Timothy Swanson & Shaun Larcom; Part II. Foreign Investment and Environmental Protection: Incentives: 6. Key Instruments of Private Environmental Finance: Funds, Project Finance and Market Mechanisms / Magnus Jesko Langer; 7. Potential of International Climate Change Law to Mobilise Low-Carbon Foreign Direct Investment / Daniel M. Firger; 8. Channelling Investment Into Biodiversity Conservation: ABS and PES Schemes / Riccardo Pavoni; 9. Role of Insurance Risk Transfer in Encouraging Climate Investment in Developing Countries / Swenja Surminski; 10. Trade-Related Incentives: The International Negotiations Over Environmental Goods and Services / Konstantina Athanasakou; Part III. Foreign Investment and Environmental Protection: Safeguards: 11. Environmental Regulation of Foreign Investment Schemes Under International Law / Jorge E. Vinuales; 12. From Corporate Social Responsibility to Accountability Mechanisms / Elisa Morgera; 13. Beyond Law as Tools: Foreign Investment Projects and the Contractualisation of Environmental Protection / Natasha Affolder; 14. Socially Responsible Investing Through Voluntary Codes / Benjamin J. Richardson; 15. Enforcement of Environmental Norms in Investment Treaty Arbitration / Zachary Douglas. …
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- Title
- Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards
- Author
- Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy; Professor Jorge E. Viñuales
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1107030773
- ISBN 13
- 9781107030770
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About the Author
Jorge E. Viñuales is the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law and an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, where he is also Director of the Programme on Environmental Governance at the Centre for International Environmental Studies.
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