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Much Ado About Nothing? – Advocating for Legality Clauses instead of ESG and CSR Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreements

Kluwer Arbitration

10 and Annex II of Angola-Brazil Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) 2015 ; and for an overview of current investor obligations Bueno / Yilmaz Vastardis / Ngueuleu Djeuga , “Investor Human Rights and Environmental Obligations: The Need to Redesign Corporate Social Responsibility Clauses” SSRN ). 1 Netherlands Model BIT 2019 ), CSR clauses (e.g.

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Red Eagle v. Colombia: Colombia’s Decisions to Protect Páramos Do Not Constitute a Violation of the Minimum Standard of Treatment vis-à-vis an Investor with No Vested Right

Kluwer Arbitration

To obtain an environmental license, the investor must obtain approval from the environmental authority of (i) an Environmental Impact Assessment and (ii) an Environmental Management Plan (“PMA”). In June 2015, Colombia enacted Law 1753 , ratifying the mining ban in páramos , but reviving a grandfathering provision alike Law 1382.

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Red Eagle v. Colombia: Colombia’s Decisions to Protect Páramos Do Not Constitute a Violation of the Minimum Standard of Treatment vis-à-vis an Investor with No Vested Right

Kluwer Arbitration

To obtain an environmental license, the investor must obtain approval from the environmental authority of (i) an Environmental Impact Assessment and (ii) an Environmental Management Plan (“PMA”). In June 2015, Colombia enacted Law 1753 , ratifying the mining ban in páramos , but reviving a grandfathering provision alike Law 1382.

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Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure

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A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday alleges that the Office of Personnel Management set up an on-premise server to conduct last weeks mass email blast to federal employees and store information it received in response without doing a privacy impact assessment on the system as required by law.