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Space For Local Content Policies And Strategies, Lise Johnson
Space For Local Content Policies And Strategies, Lise Johnson
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
This paper explores both the role that local content measures can play in advancing sustainable development, and the impact that trade and investment treaties concluded over the past 20 years have had and will continue to have on the ability of governments to employ those tools. Certain local content measures had been restricted under the WTO due to wide agreement by negotiating parties that their costs outweigh their benefits. But the WTO also left a number of local content measures in governments’ policy toolboxes. As is discussed in this paper, however, that is changing, with the range of permissible actions …
Sustainable Development Goals: How Can The Mining Sector Contribute?, Lisa E. Sachs
Sustainable Development Goals: How Can The Mining Sector Contribute?, Lisa E. Sachs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
In September 2015, the heads of 193 United Nations (UN) Member States adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. The agenda provides a successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000, with a view to ending poverty in all forms and dimensions, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all.