OUVRAGE : P.-M. Dupuy, J.E. Viñuales (eds.), Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards

Catherine MAIA

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct).



TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introductory observations Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E. Viñuales
Part I    Protecting the environment in the twenty-first century: the role of the private sector
1         International environmental law: looking at the past to shape the future Pierre-Marie Dupuy
2         The private sector and the challenge of implementation Francesco Francioni
3         The political environment of environmental law Urs Luterbacher
4         The applicability of international environmental law to private enterprises Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Vanessa Richard
5         Economics of green economies: investment in green growth and how it works Shaun Larcom and Timothy Swanson
Part II   Foreign investment and environmental protection: incentives
6         Key instruments of private environmental finance: funds, project finance and market mechanisms Magnus Jesko Langer
7         The potential of international climate change law to mobilise low-carbon foreign direct investment Daniel M. Firger
8         Channelling investment into biodiversity conservation: ABS and PES schemes Riccardo Pavoni
9         The role of insurance risk transfer in encouraging climate investment in developing countries Swenja Surminski
10        Trade-related incentives: the international negotiations over environmental goods and services Konstantina K. Athanasakou
Part III  Foreign investment and environmental protection: safeguards
11        The environmental regulation of foreign investment schemes under international law Jorge E. Viñuales
12        From corporate social responsibility to accountability mechanisms Elisa Morgera
13        Beyond law as tools: foreign investment projects and the contractualisation of environmental protection Natasha Affolder
14        Socially responsible investing through voluntary codes Benjamin J. Richardson
15        The enforcement of environmental norms in investment treaty arbitration Zachary Douglas
Concluding observations Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E. Viñuales
Index

Jean-Marie DUPUY, Jorge E. E. VIÑUALES (eds.), Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (493 pp.)