Adopted unanimously in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) give practical content to the concept of sustainable development intended to guide countries in addressing issues like poverty, ...

CCSI conducted a survey of the local content frameworks of a number of countries, identifying the key legislation, regulations, contracts and non-binding policies and frameworks dealing with local ...

CCSI was commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to organize a series of sessions ...

Many critiques of investment treaties relate to concerns that tribunals’ interpretations of these agreements depart from states’ understandings of the texts, and do so in unpredictable ways leading to ...

A market assessment to strategically evaluate technological innovation in critical mineral value chains in developing countries, focusing on the mid- and downstream and concluding in recommendations ...

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Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will only be achieved if the population has access to basic services, such as access to water, power, transport, and telecommunications. However, in ...

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a Center of Columbia Climate School at Columbia University; Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia ...

Despite a tightening of German foreign investment law in 2009 in reaction to the growing importance of state controlled entities and national security concerns, Germany has remained open for FDI. So ...

A conference report on CCSI’s Conference on “ Climate Change and Sustainable Investment in Natural Resources: From Consensus to Action ” is available here, and a shorter outcome document , which was ...

Shefa Siegel, review of Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World’s Deadliest Place, Haaretz, 2011-12 ...

CCSI has partnered with the Institute for Human Rights and Business to co-convene two colloquiums on Policy, Law, Contracts, and Sustainable Investments. Both events, which were held in New York and ...