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.
A series of online preparatory sessions to help delegates from low- and middle-income countries consider issues that will be discussed at forthcoming UNCITRAL Working Group III Sessions
At the 36th session of the UNCITRAL Working Group III (WGIII), concerns were raised “underlining the importance of improving the global investment environment in a way that encouraged fairness and promoted investment policies in line with the three pillars of sustainable development.” Such discussions on the “concerns and possible reforms of ISDS are of central importance to developing States that adopted such regime.” Accordingly, WGIII identified a series of concerns relating to cross-cutting issues that should be addressed during the reform negotiations. Among these cross-cutting issues, our speakers will be talking about reflective loss and multiple claims, third parties rights and regulatory chill, and counter-claims and investors obligations.
Below is the resource list for the online preparatory session CCSI hosted in advance of WGIII’s 45th negotiation session:
