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Biodiversity Impacts Of Investment And Free Trade Agreements, Lee C. Rarrick
Biodiversity Impacts Of Investment And Free Trade Agreements, Lee C. Rarrick
Pace Environmental Law Review
The following Article identifies the myriad ways in which international investment and free trade agreements interact with biodiversity. It categorizes these interactions into three main groups and provides a literature review of the various real-world and policy impacts. The first part analyses arbitration procedures in these agreements that investors and trade partners can invoke to protect their economic expectations from otherwise proper State action, including regulation that is intended to promote biodiversity. The next part evaluates biodiversity provisions that are included directly in the free trade and investment agreements themselves, or in side agreements thereto. Some of these provisions reference …
The Journey From Rio To Johannesburg: Ten Years Of Forest Negotiations, Ten Years Of Successes And Failures, Melanie Steiner
The Journey From Rio To Johannesburg: Ten Years Of Forest Negotiations, Ten Years Of Successes And Failures, Melanie Steiner
Golden Gate University Law Review
Since Rio, a great deal of dialogue and changes in the global forest architecture have occurred, including the growth of regional criteria and indicator (C&I) processes for sustainable forest management, development of new national forest programmes in many countries, and the establishment of the new international arrangement on forests mentioned above. Commitments have been made at all levels, in the form of IPF/IFF proposals for action, adoption of a forest work programme under the Convention on Biological Diversity, and regionally through the C&I processes. Furthermore, new issues have emerged on the scene as being critical post-Rio, including illegal logging/forest law …