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Resource Resilience: How To Break The Commodities Cycle, Lisa E. Sachs, Nicolas Maennling
Resource Resilience: How To Break The Commodities Cycle, Lisa E. Sachs, Nicolas Maennling
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
The past year has seen dramatic declines in the prices of global commodities. Between June 2014 and the beginning of this year, crude oil prices fell by 50 percent to around $50 a barrel. Similarly, mineral prices have seen a drastic fall since the peak of the “commodity supercycle” in early 2011. Between then and April of this year, iron ore prices fell by 70 percent, coal prices by 54 percent and copper prices by 40 percent.
Comments On The World Bank’S Revised Draft Environmental And Social Framework, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Comments On The World Bank’S Revised Draft Environmental And Social Framework, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
In February 2015, CCSI sent comments to the World Bank regarding its draft Environmental and Social Framework. This took place in the context of the Bank’s consultations on the review and update of its safeguards policies. CCSI’s comments focused on ensuring consistent and comprehensive application of the framework, and on the need to more expansively incorporate human rights standards. The memo also underlined the need to protect all legitimate tenure rights, including those not currently recognized by national law, and to limit the permissibility of forced evictions. In addition, the comments include proposed amendments that would ensure that government borrowers …