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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

Chapter 6-10 of ECOWAS Common Investment Code 2018 ; Art. For instance, the South African Development Community Model BIT Template mandates investors to conduct an environmental impact assessment ( Art. Rather, it only serves as a procedural vehicle to demand compensation from the investor.

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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”). The ICSID Arbitration In the arbitration, Colombia proposed several jurisdictional objections that were rejected by the tribunal.

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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”). The ICSID Arbitration In the arbitration, Colombia proposed several jurisdictional objections that were rejected by the tribunal.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Kęstutis Kazulis, Principal Advisor for Sustainable Procurement, LPPO Monitoring green impact Lithuania is now planning the next big step in monitoring GPP – measuring the impact of GPP. We hired more people and ensured our guidance responded to real demand. We tried to meet markets where they were.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

As FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi stated in a recent post, “Our regional based employees aren’t going away, but this shift in our structure will meet the growing demand from our customers that FAS respond holistically when it comes to contracting assistance.” Most DoD assessments were found to take place above a threshold of $111.4

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We Need to Talk About … the EU AI Act!

Kluwer Arbitration

I vividly remember when I gave the keynote speech on “ International Arbitration 3.0 – How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Dispute Resolution ” at the Vienna Arbitration Days 2018. At the time, people were quite skeptical about the topic, but apparently intrigued enough to select it at the GAR awards as the best lecture of the year.