During the week of 22 September 2025, States once again met in Vienna under Working Group III (WGIII)...
The global transition to renewable energy systems will be mineral intensive and, under the current linear economy conditions,...
In order to achieve the SDGs, it is essential that international economic law advances and does not undermine those goals.
CCSI produced a three-part framework to assess how international investment agreements (IIAs) and their dispute settlement mechanisms influence (1) investment flows, (2) domestic governance of those flows, and (3) international cooperation, asking whether IIAs’ effects in those three areas support or frustrate sustainable development within and across countries.
We then developed practical dimensions of this framework, including by examining how international cooperation can effectively catalyze SDG-advancing international investment, and how it can effectively support SDG-advancing domestic governance of international investment.
Assessing the actual - and ideal - role of international law in influencing and governing international investment, and looking at the costs, ben...
CCSI provides analysis and policy considerations to support governments and their stakeholders in determining whether—and how—they can termin...
Providing resources and support to government delegates participating in the negotiations—towards transparency, accountability, sustainable dev...
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CCSI, together with colleagues at Georgetown Law, suggested the development of a Framework Convention on Investment and Sustainable Development as one way of ensuring that past and future treaties comply with CCSI's three-part framework on the SDG-alignment of international investment agreements.
