Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Dupuy & Viñuales: Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards

Pierre-Marie Dupuy (Graduate Institute of International Studies) & Jorge E. Viñuales (Graduate Institute of International Studies) have published Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards (Cambridge Univ. Press 2013). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
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).