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Critical Materials Import and Environmental Preferences: Evidence From G20 and N11 Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Critical materials such as lithium and cobalt are indispensable for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 13 (Climate Action). While these materials enable the deployment of low‐carbon technologies, including electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy ...
Asif Saeed, Atif Iqbal, Faisal Saeed Malik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do the SALINI Criteria apply to the Definition of an Investment provided in Annex 1 of the 2006 and 2016 SADC Protocol on Finance and Investment? An Assessment

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2020
An investment is the subject matter of an investor-state dispute. Therefore there can be no such dispute if there is no investment to which the dispute relates.
Lawrence Ngobeni
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Participation of a non-disputing party in arbitration and protection of the public interest before an ICSID Tribunal [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2012
The paper discusses the need to protect the legitimacy of decision-making process in investment arbitration through public access to the proceedings.
Đundić Petar
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Does ESG Drive Performance or Does Performance Enable ESG? Evidence of Reverse Causality From Korean Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)‐performance literature has grown substantially, yet a fundamental question remains underexplored: do ESG investments improve firm performance, or do high‐performing firms simply invest more in ESG? We empirically address this question using panel vector autoregression with Granger causality tests
Jiyeon Kim, Wooyoung Yang
wiley   +1 more source

China's Innovative ISDS Mechanisms and Their Implications

AJIL Unbound, 2018
International arbitration before Western-based institutions is the dominant mode of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Hague-based Permanent Court of ...
Huiping Chen
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Certain Issues Concerning International Investment Arbitration within The Context of The Ata v Jordan Award

Public and Private International Law Bulletin, 2021
The award in ATA v Jordan is important as it raised various issues in investment arbitration. The award is the first where an arbitral tribunal decided that an arbitration agreement and accordingly a claimant’s right to arbitration were a separate ...
Miray Azaklı Köse, Melis Avşar
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Geopolitics and global strategy: Making money under anarchy

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Multinational firms conduct cross‐border trade and investment in a world of anarchy, where nation‐states must secure their survival in the absence of a world government. We develop a geopolitical‐economic order (GEO) framework to argue that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types ...
Daniel J. Blake, Srividya Jandhyala, Quan Li   +2 more
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When Politics Shapes Administration: Bureaucratic Autonomy, Policy Role Separation, and Organizational Capacity in an Institutionally Weak Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of administrative autonomy and the separation of roles in public policy on organizational capacity within hybrid public administration systems, particularly in Colombia. It explores the dynamics between elected officials and civil servants, focusing on how the division of responsibilities and the autonomy granted
Camilo Ignacio González, Pablo Sanabria‐Pulido   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication

Leiden Journal of International Law
Amidst initiatives and international agreements that call for a stronger consideration of sustainable development in international investment law, there is a need to assess whether the concept has found its way in decisions rendered by investment ...
Jean-Michel Marcoux
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