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Small States and Climate Change

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The general importance of climate change-related disputes can be measured on the steady increase of cases which are being brought by environmental advocacy organisations or governments in anticipation of the massive costs related to adapting to or mitigating climate change. 2 O 285/15 Essen High Court).

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What we’re getting wrong about accountability and citizen empowerment

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In terms of technology, we developed an app, FOCO , that allows for the national monitoring of Paraguay’s most important fund for education infrastructure, worth about $90 million annually. For the people that need to be heard the most, it’s not even about the digital divide, it’s about their capacity to contribute.

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Revisiting the Indus Waters Treaty: PCA Reasserts Competence

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The 2013 Kishenganga Award allowed India to continue its projects on the Kishenganga but prohibited India from using drawdown flushing to disperse sedimentation if it led to water levels in the dam fall below the dead storage capacity. India characterised the arbitration proceedings as “ illegally constructed.”

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Manufacturers Must Seek Better Supply Chain Visibility

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There are two initiatives that we believe manufacturers should elevate to the top of the priority list for their company: tracing the upstream supply chain and supplier capacity management. Visibility into supplier capacity. This initiative, a subset of the one above, is one of the hottest areas of interest for manufacturers in 2016.

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Strengthening public procurement in Africa: a conversation with Joyeuse Uwingeneye

Open Contracting Partnership

She’s also just been elected President of the African Public Procurement Network (APPN), which convenes procurement authorities from 54 countries and she emphasizes the importance of building on existing foundations to strengthen the network’s support for public procurement in Africa.

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LIDW 2024: The Rise of African Arbitration – Is Africa Leading the Way?

Kluwer Arbitration

Over the years, this has led to a huge number of bilateral, multilateral and regional investment treaties being concluded throughout Africa – as of 2016 , there were approximately one thousand such treaties with an African state party. These steps have also been important for intra-African trade.

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Applying AI to Advance Agency Missions

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He is focusing on leveraging health information for AI as well as building AI research and development capacity to help our nations Veterans through the Office of Research and Development. Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021. Department of Veterans Affairs.