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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 ...

How ISDS Interferes with the Governance of Critical Minerals for a Just Energy Transition—And What to Do About It ...

View the webinar 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 ...

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 ...

4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), Seville CCSI will organize and participate in several events during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development ...

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

CCSI participates as an observer organization in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III on Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform. Working Group III is currently advancing a mandate to reform the ...

Also available in PDF here. 1 Introduction Proponents of including investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in treaties, contracts, and even national laws argue that ISDS is necessary ...

The EU started it In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community—the predecessor of the European Union (EU)—spearheaded an initiative to promote international cooperation in the energy sector, ...