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Lights and shadows in the relationship between international law and sustainable investments : the challenges of ‘natural resources grabbing’ and their effects on State sovereignty
No full textAchievements, New Tools and Future Challenges : The Sixth Meeting of the Parties of the Water Convention
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Energy from the Sea and the Protection of the Marine Environment: Treaty-Based Regimes and Ocean Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textPierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E. Viñuales (eds.), Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection. Incentives and Safeguards, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 470 pp., ISBN 9781107030770 (hardback), US$129,99
No full textThe Kyoto Protocol’s compliance mechanism
No full textThe Kyoto Protocol provides for a very sophisticated compliance mechanism to address cases of non-compliance with reporting and substantive commitments relating to climate change. The legal basis of the mechanism is found in art. 18 of the Kyoto Protocol. More specific rules for its functioning have been further developed by decisions of the plenary body and of the Compliance Committee. This chapter examines the institutional and procedural aspects of this mechanism that show unprecedented features of impartiality, due process and effectiveness. Furthermore, it analyses the practice of the Compliance
Committee until the beginning of 2015 in facilitating and enforcing compliance and highlights its strengths and weaknesses, stressing the importance of this review system also in view of the future climate agreement
Paving the Road to Legitimacy for CDM Institutions and Procedures : Learning from Other Experiences in International Environmental Governance
No full textThe Clean Development Mechanism operates on a multilevel and constantly evolving normative basis. It was established by Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol and has evolved in light of decisions adopted at further Conferences of the Parties and through the delegation of action to another level of regulation, i.e., the CDM Executive Board and its Panels and Working Groups. The uncertainty regarding the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, together with the unstable legal basis of the CDM and the "learning by doing" approach adopted in its implementation, have subjected the CDM to growing criticism. The author suggests that this criticism is an expression of broader concerns related to the effectiveness and the legitimacy of international environmental governance. This study considers the impact of recent developments during the last Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol on these broader concerns of legitimacy. It then reviews other financial institutions sharing common features with the CDM, in particular, the World Bank "family" institutions, including the Global Environmental Facility and the Inspection Panel
The Dynamics of Multilateral Environmental Agreements. Institutional Architectures and Law-making Processes
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