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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 ...

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, ...

The general misalignment to science-based targets is particularly concerning because any misalignment to them practically nullifies any existing net-zero pledge. Furthermore, the threshold this ...

After six years of intense discussions, UNCITRAL's Working Group III (WGIII) is set to deliver its first outputs to the Commission in July 2023. These outputs consist of several significant documents, ...

As UNCITRAL Working Group III meets this week to consider a “standing multilateral mechanism,” a number of important and complex issues are on the agenda From February 14-18, 2022, UNCITRAL Working ...

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline’s construction permits and halting the pipeline as utterly incompatible with U.S. commitments ...