While emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) represent the highest growth potential in the global economy, they face the highest cost of capital, resulting in high borrowing costs and low ...

This Perspective discusses the increasing number and size of large-scale farmland acquisitions in Africa by foreign investors over the past five years, including the opportunities and risks created by ...

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint Center of Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School; Associate Professor of Professional Practice at ...

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The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), in association with Steptoe LLP, hosted Session 4 of our four-part webinar series, Candid Reflections on Resource-Based Development. Mineral ...

Anjaly Ariyanayagam is a Strategy & Communications Officer at CCSI. She brings deep experience in strategic messaging and a strong belief in the power of participatory processes to drive sustainable ...

Eighth Annual Columbia International Investment Conference: “Investment Incentives – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Costs, Benefits, and Options for Policy Reform” ...

Chair: Jeffrey D. Sachs Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia ...

CCSI was commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to organize a series of sessions ...

In 21 cases, investors brought claims based on arbitrary, unreasonable, or discriminatory measures by domestic courts, but failed in 18 of them. In GEA v.Ukraine, for example, the tribunal found “no ...

Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash. Also available in PDF.También disponible en español (PDF).. The EU started it. In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community—the predecessor of the European ...

Does the Company’s Net-Zero Target Include Scope 3 GHG Emissions? GHG accounting is crucial for companies to track and report on their GHG emissions and to monitor progress towards reduction targets.