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Preparing Legal Frameworks For Environmental Disasters: Practical Considerations For Host States, Brooke Guven, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson
Preparing Legal Frameworks For Environmental Disasters: Practical Considerations For Host States, Brooke Guven, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Projects in the extractives sector carry risks of lasting, and sometimes irreversible, damage to the environment. Nonetheless, these projects are important for accelerating the economic development of host countries. Governments seeking to mitigate the adverse effects of foreign investment often face pushback from investors that are unwilling to change their practices in order to avert environmental disaster. This report sets forth certain steps that host-governments can take during the pre-investment, operation, and enforcement phases of extractives projects to provide financial and other protection in the context of environmental disasters associated with private sector investments.
Upon comparative review of five Case …
Harmonization Of Disclosure Standards For Cross-Border Share Offerings: Approaching An "International Passport" To Capital Markets? (The Earl A. Snyder Lecture In International Law), J. William Hicks
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
On March 1, 2001, Professor Hicks delivered the fifth annual Snyder Lecture at the University of Cambridge in the Lauterpacht Center for International Research.