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Source: Blogs.ft.com August 26, 2011 By Benedict Mander There’s nothing Hugo Chávez likes more than to shake his fist at the private sector. Nationalising businesses is one of his favourite pastimes, with his Queen-of-Hearts-like cry of “expropriate it!” dreaded in boardrooms across Venezuela. But it has its consequences. With steel tube-maker Tenaris initiating arbitration proceedings before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Source: Columbia FDI Perspectives By Kathryn Gordon and Joachim Pohl* In Columbia FDI Perspective No.37, Daniel M. Firger foretells “a new era characterized by profound harmonization” between climate change policy and international investment law,based on what he sees as “unmistakable signs of convergence” in recent investment treaty making.[1] A study just released by the OECD suggests that convergence of investment treaty making toward environmental Source: IISD Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Lise Johnson, IISD, 2011. Book, 178 pages, copyright: IISD This book summarizes and analyzes select decisions issued between 2000 and 2010 by arbitral tribunals in investor–state arbitrations. In contrast to other books on bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and other investment agreements, it examines the decisions with the aim of highlighting how they may impact sustainable development. Through such issues as Source: English.aljazeera.net 25 Jul 2011 Resistance from environmentalists, and death threats against them, puts spotlight on El Dorado mine. Canada’s Pacific Rim mining company owns all the land around El Dorado in El Salvador – one of the most coveted gold mines in Central America. But the company has been unable to dig in because of resistance from local environmentalists who say that cyanide Source: ssrn.com July 29, 2011 A new working paper by Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen and Emma Aisbett shows that contrary to standard assumptions in the academic literature – the majority of developing countries did not make careful cost-benefit calculations in the midst of the rush to sign BITs. Some countries were, of course, well-endowed with expertise early in their BIT-programs, and most were more Source: Forbes
8/17/2011 By Amy Westervelt A year or so ago I met an attorney on a plane who explained to me that his was a very niche practice. He explained what he did as “defending companies whose operations were being threatened by governments,” and cited examples of oil companies that had been drilling in Venezuela when Chavez came Source: Jubileesouth Buenos Aires, June 10, 2011. Representatives of various organizations in the region and nationally agreed to submit a series of observations and demands to the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Presidents of the Union of Nations of South America, UNASUR, during the first meeting of the South American Council of Economy and Finance. The meeting, due to be held today in Buenos Source: Australia Fair Trade and Investment Network-Third World Network This analysis focuses on how the TPP investment provisions would constrain the ability of governments, both developed and developing, to regulate. By Harvey Purse, Australian Fair Trade & Investment Network, Australia Sanya Reid Smith, Third World Network, Malaysia Click here to read the analysis |
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How they threaten communities and the environment, and how we can change them.
We provide this documentation from the ICSID web page for a critical analysis. It includes the list of cases that this tribunal has filed and managed historically and until 2009.
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