Document Type
Report/Policy Paper
Publication Date
4-2024
Abstract
Global climate change impacts pose complex, dynamic challenges to the success of land-based investments — such as agriculture, forestry, and wind and solar energy — which can further exacerbate detrimental climate change impacts if they are not sustainably implemented. Countries outline in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) their goals and plans to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. To ensure their success, governments must fully integrate their NDCs into national climate strategies, plans, and policies that drive government action and decisions. Improved land-based investment decision-making through the incorporation of climate considerations in investment assessment processes (IAPs) can help prioritize and encourage projects that contribute to these national plans.
The IAP is part of the broader investment life cycle. It comprises the full range of legal frameworks and associated processes that establish the requirements investors must meet to be allowed to operate their proposed project in the host country, starting from an initial expression of interest through to a granting of approval to operate the project.
This guide provides recommendations to national and local governments on how to incorporate climate considerations into the IAP and, to a lesser degree, prior and subsequent stages of the investment lifecycle.
Disciplines
Environmental Law | International Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Esther Akwii, Grace Brennan, Leslie Hannay, Martin Dietrich Brauch and
Nora Mardirossian, Incorporating Climate Considerations into Investment Assessment
Processes: Guidance for National and Local Governments (New York: Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), April 2024), https://ccsi.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/docs/ccsi-climate-considerations-investment-assessment.pdf.
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment/34