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| Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Newsletter: November 2021 Lisa Sachs ccsi@law.columbia.edu via gmail.mcsv.net 1:48 PM (20 hours ago) to me November 2021 Newsletter Dear Colleagues, The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is pleased to update you on select events, recent publications, and projects at the Center. Please check our website for more information about these and other activities. Publications Now Available Online! Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2020 Leaving No One Behind? Development Finance and the Need for Community Support Politics Are Holding Back Implementation of Extractive Sector Transparency Rules New Tech, New Deal: Mining Policy Options in the Face of New Technology Climate Change Disclosures: Comments by COMET to the SEC IFC Net Zero Roadmap for Critical Minerals CCSI In the News Clarifying the Goals and Impacts of ESG Investing Upcoming Events Fall 2021 International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series Past Events October 25: Corporate Alignment to the Paris Agreement: From Ambition to Action October 18: Remarks by Jesse Coleman on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Trade and Investment Treaties October 18: Extractive Industries Webinar: Understanding Community Development Agreements (CDAs), Challenges and Effectiveness October 14: Organizing for Alternatives: Redesigning Investment Governance September 30: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Climate Conference From Our Fellows Policy Brief: Facilitating Sustainable Investment to Build Back Better Expanding International Legal Aid from Trade to Investment: An Advisory Centre on International Investment Law Publications Now Available Online! Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2020 The 2020 edition of The Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (edited by CCSI's Lisa Sachs, Lise Johnson, and Jesse Coleman) is now available online to Investmentclaims.com subscribers. It will be available in hard copy as well. The 2020 edition includes policy, thematic and regional developments from 2020 in investment law and policy, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on investment flows and governance. The chapters also raise questions relevant to governance of investment in the context of existing and future global socio-economic and environmental crises. Leaving No One Behind? Development Finance and the Need for Community Support CCSI and Namati co-authored an op-ed for SDG Action entitled 'Leaving no one behind? Development finance and the need for community support.' The op-ed explains how development finance institutions (DFIs) can use their leverage to avoid investment-affected communities being left behind. DFIs must make investments that respect rural community rights and promote sustainable development. Read the article here and on CCSI's blog page here. Politics Are Holding Back Implementation of Extractive Sector Transparency Rules The latest addition to CCSI's Politics of Transparency and Accountability: Views from the Field blog series explores the politics of implementing transparency reforms. While the inventory of international and national commitments, laws, and regulations to advance transparency, participation, and accountability in the extractive industries has expanded significantly over the last few decades, implementation of many of these rules remains weak. Drawing on the Natural Resource Governance Institute's work exploring these 'implementation gaps' in Africa and beyond, Amir Shafaie, Moses Kulaba, and Kaisa Toroskainen discuss some of the key political factors driving these gaps between rules and practice. They also offer some ideas on how to close the gap through more deliberate action to identify and address political obstacles and opportunities. New Tech, New Deal: Mining Policy Options in the Face of New Technology In a recent report entitled “New Tech, New Deal: Mining policy options in the face of new technology,” CCSI, IISD and Engineers Without Borders, with the support of GIZ, assessed how the mining sector can move forward to allow investments to serve as an engine for sustainable development for host countries and communities alike, looking at the various policies to leverage the new technologies to strike a new deal with host countries and communities. Read the report here. Climate Change Disclosures: Comments by COMET to the SEC The Coalition on Materials Emissions Transparency (COMET) recently submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the desirability of mandatory climate disclosures. Read the comments here. Learn more here about COMET, a joint initiative between the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, RMI, and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN Climate Change). IFC Net Zero Roadmap for Critical Minerals In collaboration with consortium partners, CCSI is developing the IFC Net Zero Roadmap for Critical Minerals - a project commissioned by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and sponsored by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). The roadmap will map the copper and nickel mining sectors and their value chains, assess mitigation options and their emissions reductions potentials, prioritize the interventions, review just transition opportunities and risks, explore technological and collaborative initiatives, assess regulatory and implementation challenges and opportunities, and examine the role of financial institutions and green financing instruments. The goal of the project is to support the nickel and copper mining sectors in taking collective, coordinated action by providing a clear, approachable, and accepted roadmap for decarbonization of their value chains. The project consortium is formed by Carbon Trust, CCSI, and two other COMET partners (the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines and RMI). View the project page here. CCSI In the News Clarifying the Goals and Impacts of ESG Investing CCSI Director Lisa Sachs explains to MSNBC and to Bloomberg that ESG investing will not solve our global challenges. ESG portfolios can help align investors' portfolios with their values or mitigate exposure to risks, but addressing our urgent environmental and social crises requires bold public action and economy-wide transformations. Many of the companies held in these ESG portfolios are lobbying against these public measures, Sachs explains to S&P Global. Upcoming Events Fall 2021 International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series November - December, 2021 CCSI’s 16th annual International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series begins November 8! The virtual series, focusing on the perspective of policy makers on central topics in investment law and policy, will include panels on AfCFTA, Investment Facilitation, and Investment Law and Human Rights. Each session will allow for Q&A and discussion with the panelists. The series is sponsored by Arnold & Porter. Please visit our website for the schedule and to register. Past Events October 25: Corporate Alignment to the Paris Agreement: From Ambition to Action CCSI and the Columbia Climate School, with support from Iberdrola, hosted a virtual, global conference focused on alignment with the Paris Agreement. The conference included discussions on: the prevalence and feasibility of Net-Zero Pledges; the challenges and risks of diverse carbon accounting methods; internal metrics to shift corporate strategy toward decarbonization; and the opportunities and hurdles of climate finance. For more about this event, including links to the video recording of each panel, PPT presentations, and our 'Top Ten Takeaways,' visit our website. October 18: Remarks by Jesse Coleman on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Trade and Investment Treaties CCSI's Jesse Coleman made comments on human rights impact assessments of trade and investment treaties during a South Centre webinar on 'Exploring synergies in multilateralism and human rights for a just, fair & equitable recovery from COVID-19.' The webinar convened policymakers and civil society in the run up to the 7th session dedicated to the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in accordance with international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises (LBI). October 18: Extractive Industries Webinar: Understanding Community Development Agreements (CDAs), Challenges and Effectiveness CCSI’s Sam Szoke-Burke presented, alongside IIED and SDSG, to the Emerging Market Investors Alliance on the topic of community development agreements and free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). The interactive presentation drew from OpenCommunityContracts.org and CCSI’s community development requirements page, as well as CCSI’s ongoing work on private sector financing of technical support for communities. October 14: Organizing for Alternatives: Redesigning Investment Governance In this event, CCSI, AfronomicsLaw.org, SEATINI-Uganda, and OSIWA discussed strategies for redesigning international investment governance. The discussion focused on how to align investment governance with climate and human rights obligations, and how to strengthen cross-regional efforts to transform alternatives from ideas into reality. To read more about this event, visit our website. September 30: Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Climate Conference CCSI's Martin Dietrich Brauch gave a virtual presentation on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in Portuguese at an event organized by the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. View the video of the presentation here. From Our Fellows Policy Brief: Facilitating Sustainable Investment to Build Back Better CCSI Resident Senior Fellow Karl P. Sauvant co-authored a new policy brief prepared in the framework of the T20 Task Force 3, Trade, Investment and Growth, as an input for the forthcoming G20 summit. The brief develops a set of key recommendations for G20 policy-makers on how investment facilitation frameworks can be designed to help attract sustainable FDI for sustainable development and recovery in general. Read it here. Expanding International Legal Aid from Trade to Investment: An Advisory Centre on International Investment Law CCSI Resident Senior Fellow Karl P. Sauvant co-authored an article in the Global Trade and Customs Journal. The article makes the case for the creation of an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law (ACIIL) to provide support to respondent States involved in disputes brought by private investors based on international investment treaties and other instruments, as part of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). Read it here. Copyright © 2021 Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), All rights reserved. ccsi@law.columbia.edu Our mailing address is: Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) Columbia Law School - Earth Institute, Columbia University 435 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from all CCSI lists update subscription preferences for CCSI lists Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp | |||||||||