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Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltrecht ; Umweltschutz ; Finanzierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Dupuy, Pierre-Marie 1946-

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Content: Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct).

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Protecting the environment in the twenty-first century : the role of the private sector. , International environmental law : looking at the past to shape the future / , The private sector and the challenge of implementation / , The political environment of environmental law / , The applicability of international environmental law to private enterprises / , Economics of green economies : investment in green growth and how it works / , Foreign investment and environmental protection : incentives. , Key instruments of private environmental finance : funds, project finance and market mechanisms / , The potential of international climate change law to mobilise low-carbon foreign direct investment / , Channelling investment into biodiversity conservation : ABS and PES schemes / , The role of insurance risk transfer in encouraging climate investment in developing countries / , Trade-related incentives : the international negotiations over environmental goods and services / , Foreign investment and environmental protection : safeguards. , The environmental regulation of foreign investment schemes under international law / , From corporate social responsibility to accountability mechanisms / , Beyond law as tools : foreign investment projects and the contractualisation of environmental protection / , Socially responsible investing through voluntary codes / , The enforcement of environmental norms in investment treaty arbitration /

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ISBN: 9781139344289

Content: Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct)

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Introductory observations , Part I. Protecting the environment in the twenty-first century : the role of the private sector. 1. International environmental law : looking at the past to shape the future , Part II. Foreign investment and environmental protection : incentives. 6. Key instruments of private environmental finance : funds, project finance and market mechanisms , Part III. Foreign investment and environmental protection : safeguards. 11. The environmental regulation of foreign investment schemes under international law , Concluding observations

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139344289

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ISBN: 9781107030770 , 9781107333420

Content: Covering both incentives (funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments for ecosystem services, insurance) and safeguards (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts, codes of conduct), this volume investigates the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection from legal, economic and political perspectives

Note: Intro -- contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introductory observations -- I Protecting the environment in the twentyfirst century: the role of the private sector -- 1 International environmental law: looking at the past to shape the future -- Introduction -- 1.1 Gradual expansion -- 1.1.1 An expanding spatial scope -- 1.1.2 Framework of intervention -- 1.2 Increasing complexity -- 1.2.1 Normative methods -- 1.2.2 Institutional mechanisms -- 1.3 Persistence of initial tensions -- 1.3.1 A confined mindset -- 1.3.2 Environmental protection and economic interests -- Select bibliography -- 2 The private sector and the challenge of implementation -- Introduction -- 2.1 Implementation of international environmental law in context -- 2.2 A normative perspective of `functional´ sovereignty -- 2.3 Implementing environmental standards by `other´ means -- 2.4 Improving the effectiveness of international environmental law through institutional reform -- Select bibliography -- 3 The political environment of environmental law -- Introduction -- 3.1 Analysing the `commons´4 problem -- 3.2 The problem of cooperation -- 3.3 Negotiating environmental problems: the example of climate change -- 3.3.1 Negotiations and the Coase theorem -- 3.3.2 Significance of the Coase theorem -- 3.3.3 Efficiency of compensations -- 3.4 Implementation problems -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- 4 The applicability of international environmental law to private enterprises -- 4.1 Conceptualising the problem -- 4.2 The incidence of `inter-state´ international environmental law -- 4.2.1 A growing hold on enterprises -- 4.2.2 But a fragile hold -- 4.3 Development and diversification of international environmental legal norms affecting enterprises -- 4.3.1 Features: soft law and soft regulation , 10.1 WTO negotiations on environmental goods and services -- 10.1.1 The framework of the negotiations -- 10.1.2 Negotiations over environmental goods -- 10.1.3 Environmental services negotiations -- 10.2 Technology dissemination in the context of the EGS negotiations -- 10.2.1 Environmental technologies as a criterion -- 10.2.2 EGS technologies and investment -- Conclusion -- Select bibiliography -- III Foreign investment and environmental protection: safeguards -- 11 The environmental regulation of foreign investment schemes under international law -- Introduction -- 11.1 `Legitimacy conflicts´ versus `normative conflicts´ -- 11.2 The `traditional approach´ -- 11.2.1 `Suspicious´ environmental measures -- 11.2.2 `Subordinated´ environmental measures -- 11.3 A more `progressive approach´ -- 11.3.1 Internationally induced measures are less suspicious -- 11.3.2 Internationally induced measures are not subordinated -- 11.4 The `upgraded approach´ -- 11.4.1 Environmental differentiation -- 11.4.2 Adjusting the level of `reasonableness´ expected from investors -- 11.4.3 The use of the police powers doctrine -- 11.4.4 A broader scope for emergency/necessity clauses -- 11.5 Some prospective observations -- 11.5.1 Obstacles to a `progressive approach´ -- 11.5.2 The contribution of soft mechanisms -- 11.5.3 The contribution of adjudication mechanisms -- Select bibliography -- 12 From corporate social responsibility to accountability mechanisms -- Introduction -- 12.1 From corporate social responsibility to corporate accountability through converging environmental standards -- 12.2 Increased convergence in 2011 reviews -- 12.3 Business and human rights: what role for corporate environmental accountability standards? -- 12.4 From corporate social responsibility to corporate accountability through multiple monitoring mechanisms , 12.4.1 The Global Compact´s integrity measures -- 12.4.2 Communications to the UN Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples´ rights -- 12.4.3 IFC ombudsman -- 12.4.4 OECD Guidelines implementation procedure -- 12.5 Institutional fragmentation and substantive unity: the role of the CBD -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- 13 Beyond law as tools: foreign investment projects and the contractualisation of environmental protection -- Introduction -- 13.1 Environmental law as tools: prevailing approaches -- 13.1.1 The preferences of legal scholars -- 13.1.2 The sources of information on project-specific contracts -- 13.1.3 The limited scope of the legal radar -- 13.1.4 Beyond an instrumentalist view of contracts -- 13.2 Foreign investment projects and environmental protection: contracts as blind spots -- 13.2.1 Extractive industry projects and contractual webs -- 13.2.2 Transnational conservation contracts -- 13.2.2.1 Conservation concession agreements -- 13.2.2.2 Conservation performance payments agreements -- 13.2.2.3 Forest carbon agreements -- 13.2.2.4 Private protected areas and company reserves -- 13.2.2.5 Access and benefit-sharing agreements -- 13.2.2.6 Debt-for-nature swaps -- 13.2.3 Governance by contract -- 13.3 Project-specific research: of materials and methods -- Conclusion: `reasonable expectations´ -- Select bibliography -- 14 Socially responsible investing through voluntary codes -- Introduction -- 14.1 The evolution of socially responsible investing -- 14.2 Codes of conduct for SRI -- 14.3 Typology of SRI codes -- 14.3.1 Differentiating voluntary codes -- 14.3.2 Financiers´ codes -- 14.3.3 Joint financier-public authority codes -- 14.3.4 Public authority codes -- 14.3.5 Third-party codes -- 14.3.6 Joint financier-third-party codes -- 14.3.7 Multi-party codes and integrated rule-making -- Conclusion: the future of SRI governance , 4.3.2 Does `soft regulation´ mean `soft implementation´? -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- 5 Economics of green economies: investment in green growth and how it works -- Introduction -- 5.1 Environmental policy as development policy -- 5.2 Green development paths: the direction of development -- 5.3 Green development paths: the form of development -- 5.4 Competitiveness: the benefits from green development paths -- 5.5 Choosing development pathways: the governmental role -- 5.6 Green economies, green development paths and innovative investments -- 5.6.1 Innovation and rents: the basic economics -- 5.6.2 Technology and policy leadership: the case of Japan -- 5.6.2.1 Technology leadership -- 5.6.2.2 Policy leadership in environmental regulation -- 5.6.3 Technology leadership: the Danish windmill industry -- 5.6.3.1 Infant industry policy, the importance of scale and learning by doing -- 5.6.3.2 The impact of technological leadership: enjoying success -- 5.6.3.3 Policy and technology leadership: Danish wind turbine technologies -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- II Foreign investment and environmental protection: incentives -- 6 Key instruments of private environmental finance: funds, project finance and market mechanisms -- Introduction -- 6.1 Environmental finance: an overview -- 6.2 Private funds -- 6.2.1 The SRI market in the private fund industry -- 6.2.2 Diversification of SRI investment vehicles -- 6.2.3 Legal framework governing the investment industry -- 6.2.4 Challenges for the future growth of SRI -- 6.3 Project finance -- 6.3.1 Multilateral development banks engaging the private sector -- 6.3.2 Financial intermediaries -- 6.3.3 The Equator Principles -- 6.4 Market mechanism -- 6.4.1 Carbon markets -- 6.4.2 Payment for environmental or ecosystem services -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography , 7 The potential of international climate change law to mobilise low-carbon foreign direct investment -- Introduction -- 7.1 Understanding the carbon market(s) -- 7.1.1 The `regime complex´ for climate change -- 7.1.2 Creating carbon credits -- 7.1.2.1 Allowances -- 7.1.2.2 Offsets -- 7.2 Joint implementation -- 7.2.1 Background -- 7.2.2 Track 1 versus 2 projects -- 7.2.3 Outlook -- 7.3 The clean development mechanism -- 7.3.1 Background -- 7.3.2 Governance and reform -- 7.4 REDD -- 7.4.1 Background -- 7.4.2 Challenges -- 7.5 Comparative assessment of future potential -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- 8 Channelling investment into biodiversity conservation: ABS and PES schemes -- Introduction: the business case for biodiversity after the failure of the 2010 target -- 8.1 Market-based mechanisms and the regulatory `command-and-control´ approach: mutually exclusive or complementary? -- 8.2 Positive incentive mechanisms to foster the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity: benefit-sharing agreements -- 8.3 Payments for ecosystem services -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- 9 The role of insurance risk transfer in encouraging climate investment in developing countries -- Introduction -- 9.1 Financial instruments and environmental protection in developing countries: the role of insurance -- 9.2 The case of insurance risk-transfer and climate-related investments in developing countries -- 9.2.1 Introductory observations -- 9.2.2 Liability insurance -- 9.2.3 Project insurance -- 9.2.3.1 Common project risks -- 9.2.3.2 Carbon-finance-specific risks -- 9.2.3.3 Political risk -- 9.2.4 Natural disaster cover -- 9.2.5 Policy risks -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- 10 Trade-related incentives: the international negotiations over environmental goods and services -- Introduction , Select bibliography

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