Sentences with phrase «multilateral investment»

If it continues to grow and more states accede, some are suggesting that the Convention could serve as a template for a further treaty introducing a multilateral investment court system for resolution of investor - state disputes under existing investment treaties.

It is possible that the idea of a standing multilateral investment court may become subsumed in other more or less wide - ranging suggestions for reform.

This intention is clear, for example, from the commitment which the EU and Canada made in the CETA to «pursue with other trading partners the establishment of a multilateral investment tribunal and appellate mechanism for the resolution of investment disputes».

Most bilateral and multilateral investment treaties provide foreign...

Legal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the world.

Investor State Disputes: Thousands of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, including many recent free trade agreements, give those doing business outside their home country important substantive rights vis - à - vis the States hosting their investments.

Notwithstanding its narrow focus, the Mauritius Convention pursues a systematic reform approach and confronts the fragmented structure of the international investment regime by proposing a legal principle (transparency) that applies to all existing bilateral, regional, and multilateral investment treaties, and in all available arbitral fora.

This is a well - established mechanism found in bilateral and multilateral investment treaties that assists investors in safeguarding their investments against certain political, regulatory, judicial and other state - driven risks that are especially significant in cross-border transactions.

We advise, principally multinational, clients on all aspects of international law, including rights under the bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.

Investment treaty cases, has acted for a number of investors in the protection of their investment under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.

David has also acted for sovereign state bodies in investor - state arbitration under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties including under the Energy Charter Treaty.

The dichotomy of investor - state arbitration versus a multilateral investment court is false for two reasons.

In addition, the SCC is one of three possible forums for investment disputes in the multilateral investment protection agreement, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).

We regularly advise on and act in disputes arising under bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and multilateral investment treaties (such as the Energy Charter Treaty and NAFTA).

Sweden and the SCC also play a unique role in the international system developed for bilateral and multilateral investment protection worldwide.

Advised clients regarding host country instruments and bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, including NAFTA, CAFTA - DR and the Energy Charter Treaty

The proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the dramatic increase in the invocation of multilateral investment treaties (MITs) and the growing inter-play between investment and international commercial arbitration in recent years all mean that it is imperative for practitioners of international arbitration to have a clear understanding of the fundamental elements of a BIT and the issues that arise with BIT claims.

A leaked proposal by Austria, Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands seeks more investor protection through an EU multilateral investment treaty, and might be incompatible with EU law.

The Commission's plans for a multilateral investment court must respect domestic courts, be inclusive, and protect responsible investment only.

Although inclusion of public - participation policies is common practice among multilateral investment bodies, their conspicuous absence within the CDM has not been addressed until now.

China has committed US$ 50 billion to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (a multilateral investment bank to support infrastructure projects in Asia's developing countries), as well as US$ 40 billion for the Silk Road Fund which will see China lead overland and maritime links throughout Central Asia and provide quicker shipping routes to the European market.

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We should promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, support the multilateral trading system.»

Through bilateral trade and investments relationships and multilateral platforms such as the 16 +1 framework, Beijing is asserting itself in the region.

Trump has no investment or interest in preserving the multilateral system.

AIIB stands for China's proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a multilateral development bank that will...

Making best practices the norm, across all DFIs old and new, national and multilateral, will help ensure that all capital is deployed toward low - carbon investments.

But, somewhat in the shadows of these remarkable achievements in the field of multilateral trade policy, foreign investment has emerged as another important component of China's international economic relations.

It is because of this lack of multilateral coordination that international rules governing foreign investment have been established through a myriad of international investment agreements (IIAs) negotiated and concluded either as bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between two countries, or through multilateral negotiations.

A new report shows how multilateral development banks, including the World Bank, gave over $ 9 billion in funding for fossil fuel projects in 2016, nearly all of it following the Paris Agreement being reached and despite claims that they were acting on climate and adjusting their investment strategies.

These investments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity's debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies.

China has begun to build a parallel set of financial institutions, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); the Asian Bond Fund Initiative; the New Development Bank (formerly the BRICS Bank); and the Chiang Mai Initiative, which is an Asian regional multilateral arrangement to swap currencies.

We note the significant progress made by the multilateral development banks on the Clean Energy Investment Framework (CEIF) agreed at Gleneagles and welcome their joint level of ambition to mobilize public and private investments of over US$ 100 billion up to 2010 from within existing resources.

Forest Trends is a Washington D.C. - based international non-profit organization that was created in 1999 by leaders from conservation organizations, forest products firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private investment funds and philanthropic foundations.

The money needed can be catalyzed — at least initially — through existing multilateral financial instittions liked the Asian Development Bank (ADB), China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the World Bank and others.

Investments in stopping deforestation make up less than 1.5 % — US$ 2.3 bn — of the US$ 167 bn committed by multilateral institutions and developed country donors since 2010 to climate change mitigation.

At maturity, investments in the initiative are expected to hit around $ 4 trillion, stemming from private sources, dedicated funds, and multilateral development banks.

The paper underlines the central role of the UNFCCC and points to a constellation of actors - multilateral institutions, governments, businesses, states, cities and citizens - whose capacities and specialized focus can contribute to climate governance, emission reductions and adaptation investment.

Analysis shows that multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience, a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, are at the forefront.

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are a pair of multilateral trust funds that provide funding to 48 developing and middle income countries in support of low carbon and climate resilient development.

This fact - sheet presents the main results of a mapping of global climate change financial flows involving a diversity of public and private sources (e.g. government budgets and capital markets), agents (e.g. bilateral finance institutions, multilateral finance institutions, development cooperation agencies, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct investment).

This analytical report explains how the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) relates to poor women's and men's livelihoods, presents the status to date of gender and the CIF, and recommends actions for the CIF Trust Fund Committees and Subcommittees, multilateral development banks and civil society organizations to ensuring that the CIF responds to the needs of poor women and men equitably.

This activity report facilitates the identification of priority mitigation and adaptation measures by the participating countries, in line with their national sustainable development strategies, and how these measures can be effectively supported financially by public and private sector funding, multilateral initiatives, carbon markets and other sources of funding or investment.

A Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure would use fiscal policy (through carbon pricing and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies) to fund ocordinated infrastructure investment (through multilateral cooperation) resulting in more open markets (through increased cross-border energy trade) resulting in lower prices (through heightened competition).

After eight years of financial support for REDD + readiness, the first countries are finalizing national REDD + strategies and seeking funding for investments to implement programs to reduce deforestation and degradation as well as the first multilateral performance based REDD + results.

Financing from the CIF is channeled through the Bank and other multilateral development banks, with approximately 25 percent of its financing allocated to the private sector to stimulate markets, increase investment potential, and enable financial gain in climate - friendly enterprises and businesses.

The UK gave two thirds of its overall FSF funding through multilateral channels, especially the World Bank administered Climate Investment Funds (CIFs).

Along with a coalition of CSOs CAN Europe has set out recommendations to ensure that lessons are learnt from other investment initiatives at the multilateral and European level; both the positive examples of careful, evidence - led work and negative, long - term damaging examples of hastily established funds.

The six major multilateral development banks (MDBs) studied — the World Bank Group, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank — continue to provide substantial support for fossil fuels, despite strongly - worded promises to fight climate change.

The needed annual investments in infrastructure outlined above could be paid with carbon prices well within the range of what's been suggested by multilateral agencies and imposed by forward looking managers of progressive economies.

Investments in disaster risk reduction by donors, national governments, the UN and multilateral institutions should be child - centred and ensure that children participate in identifying appropriate interventions.