This blog was originally published on Illuminem, and has been co-authored with Rhian-Mari Thomas. She is the CEO...
Financing Climate & Sustainable Development / Report
Diagnosing how the sovereign ceiling functions as a simplifying shortcut that can obscure meaningful differences across borrowers, and proposing an alternative credit rating approach based on disaggregating sovereign risk into specific transmission channels.
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Financing Climate & Sustainable Development / Report
Distinguishing between planetary, economic, and financial risks, and the six distinct policy responses to them. This paper examines a range of public and private institutions whose mandates relate to those responses in distinct ways.
International Investment Law / Briefing note
When arbitration is included in State–investor contracts, how can arbitration clauses be redesigned to protect the public interest and avoid the pitfalls associated with treaty-style arbitration, while remaining acceptable in practice? CCSI's brief proposes 17 public interest safeguards grouped into three mutually reinforcing clusters, backed by examples of State practice showing that departures from boilerplate arbitration clauses are achievable.
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Aligning mining with the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on resource-rich developing economies
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