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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

This post can serve as a resource for public sector leaders, utilities, and environmental agencies seeking to harness the power of the cloud to create a more sustainable water future for the EMEA region and beyond.

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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Alarmingly, 60% of projects bypassed initial environmental impact assessments, as it was deemed unnecessary or not required under current regulations. This raises questions though about the long-term sustainability of the projects, which was a core promise of these Olympics and Paralympics. You should get involved too.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

In addition, a dedicated Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) Competence Center was established in the LPPO to lead implementation and to support contracting authorities and suppliers in their adoption of green criteria. In 2023, the LPPO added a set of key sustainability performance indicators to its procurement dashboard.

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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

After discussing the drawbacks of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investor obligations, the post will put forward its own proposal of a legality clause with a “sustainable-development” element. Instead, a Legality Clause with a “Sustainable-Development” Element?

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

New legislation is required to impose specific minimum requirements of eg data governance and algorithmic impact assessment and related transparency across the public sector, to address the issue of lack of standards and metrics but without reliance on their development by and within the AI industry.

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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 views expressed herein are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of their employer.

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What are the main governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation?

University of Bristol

Moving past these shortcomings requires assigning the approval of decisions whether to adopt digital technologies and the verification of the related impact assessments to an independent authority: the ‘AI in the Public Sector Authority’ (AIPSA).