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Assessing the Impacts of Investment Treaties: Overview of the evidence
Investment treaties grant powerful legal rights to foreign investors. Foreign investors’ ability to frame plausible multimillion-dollar claims against a wide range of host government actions—and the fact that these claims are adjudicated through a system of private arbitration—has made investment treaties controversial. This scoping study seeks to provide an overview and assessment of existing evidence of investment treaties’ impacts.
The Rise of Agricultural Growth Poles in Africa: Investment in Agriculture Policy Brief #6
Africa has seen the emergence of 36 agricultural growth poles and 9 corridors over the past 15 years. They cover at least 3.5 million hectares of land in 23 countries. Ensuring that the new wave of agropoles and growth corridors is effective requires robust policies, laws and practices to ensure that a possible new trend of investment helps Africa achieve the sustainable development goals the continent has set.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Energy infrastructure
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for energy infrastructure.
Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2017
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Buildings
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for buildings.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Roads
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for road infrastructure.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Water infrastructure
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for water infrastructure.
Cities and Smart Grids in Canada
This report looks specifically at smart grids within the context of grid modernization and urban settings in Canada.
Financing High Performance Climate Adaptation in Agriculture: Climate Bonds for Multi-Functional Water Harvesting Infrastructure on the Canadian Prairies
This article explores distributed water harvesting, a climate change adaptation strategy that can offer the co-benefit of enhancing ecosystem services.