International Investment Agreements: Impacts on Climate Change Policies in India, China, and Beyond

CCSI staff wrote a chapter in the book “Trade in the Balance: Reconciling Trade and Climate Policy,” highlighting particular challenges and opportunities that international investment agreements pose for climate policy in China and India. When analyzing the relationship between IIAs and climate change, these two countries are important to examine because of their significant modern contributions and vulnerabilities to climate change; their active yet divergent approaches to IIAs; and their dual roles as hosts of considerable inward investment and homes to a large and growing cadre of major outward investors. The issues China and India face in terms of the intersections of climate policy and investment law are not entirely unique to them, but are especially visible.