The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint center of Columbia Law School and Columbia Climate School at Columbia University, is the only university-based applied research center and forum dedicated to the study, practice and discussion of sustainable international investment. It develops practical approaches for governments, investors, communities, and other stakeholders to maximize the benefits of international investment for sustainable development. Applying its legal, economic, and policy expertise, CCSI addresses sustainable investment holistically, bridging investment law, natural resource management, human rights, economics, political economy, and environmental management. It works to strengthen the sustainable development potential of international investment, and to ensure that international investment is mutually beneficial for investors and the citizens of recipient countries.

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Publications from 2015

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Article: Measuring Land Rights for a Sustainable Future, Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Article: Next Generation Treaty – India’s New Model BIT Makes it Clear that its Goal is to Accomplish More than Investor Protection, Lisa E. Sachs, Lise Johnson, and Sudhanshu Roy

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Article: Not So Fast, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Lisa E. Sachs, and Lise Johnson

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Article: Resource Resilience: How to Break the Commodities Cycle, Lisa E. Sachs and Nicolas Maennling

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Article: Shared-Use Mining Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sophie Thomashausen and Glen Ireland

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Article: The Responsible Investor’s Guide to Climate Change, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs

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Article: TPP Would Let Foreign Investors Bypass the Canadian Public Interest, Lisa E. Sachs and Lise Johnson

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Article: Uncloaking the Secrecy Behind Large-Scale Land Deals, Jesse Coleman

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Article: Why Fast Track Is a Dangerous Gift to Corporate Lobbies, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Lisa E. Sachs, and Lise Johnson

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Article: Wrong Direction on Climate, Trade and Development, Lisa E. Sachs and Lise Johnson

Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2013-2014, Andrea K. Bjorklund

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Memo/Briefing Note: Comments on the World Bank’s Revised Draft Environmental and Social Framework, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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Memo/Briefing Note: Memo to Prime Minister Cameron on the Revision of the U.K. National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights, Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Sam Szoke-Burke

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Memo/Briefing Note: Memo to the Obama Administration on the U.S. National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct, Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Lisa E. Sachs

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Memo/Briefing Note: New Weaknesses: Despite a Major Win, Arbitration Decisions in 2014 Increase the US’s Future Exposure to Litigation and Liability, Lise Johnson

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Report/Policy Paper: Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Public Interest and U.S. Domestic Law, Lise Johnson, Lisa E. Sachs, and Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Report/Policy Paper: Natural Resource Contracts as a Tool for Managing the Mining Sector, David Kienzler, Perrine Toledano, Sophie Thomashausen, and Sam Szoke-Burke

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Report/Policy Paper: Ripe for Refinement: The State’s Role in Interpretation of FET, MFN, and Shareholder Rights, Lise Johnson

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Report/Policy Paper: The TPP’s Investment Chapter: Entrenching, Rather Than Reforming, a Flawed System, Lise Johnson and Lisa E. Sachs

Publications from 2014

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Article: International Investment Agreements: Are Their Policy Aims Served By Their Broad Definitions of Covered “Investors” and “Investments”?, Lise Johnson

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Article: Making Agricultural Investments Work for Land Users & Communities, Kaitlin Y. Cordes

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Article: New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules on Transparency: Application, Content and Next Steps, Lise Johnson and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder

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Article: State Liability for Regulatory Change: How International Investment Rules are Overriding Domestic Law, Lise Johnson and Oleksandr Volkov

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Article: Toward Win-Win Sustainable Development, Linda Moon

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Article: Trading Away Human Rights, Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Olivier De Schutter

Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013, Andrea K. Bjorklund

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Memo/Briefing Note: Review Mechanisms in Natural Resource Contracts, Jacky Mandelbaum, Salli Anne Swartz, and John Hauert

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Memo/Briefing Note: Why Good Governance of Land and Tenure Security Need to be Part of the Sustainable Development Goal Framework, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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Report/Policy Paper: A Framework to Approach Shared-Use of Mining Related Infrastructure, Perrine Toledano, Sophie Thomashausen, Nicolas Maennling, and Alpa Shah

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Report/Policy Paper: Investment Treaties and Industrial Policy: Select Case Studies on State Liability for Efforts to Encourage, Shape and Regulate Economic Activities in Extractive Industries and Infrastructure, Lise Johnson

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Report/Policy Paper: Leveraging Mining Demand for Internet and Telecommunications Infrastructure for Broad Economic Development: Models, Opportunities and Challenges, Perrine Toledano and Clara Roorda

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Report/Policy Paper: Leveraging Mining Investments in Water Infrastructure for Broad Economic Development: Models, Opportunities and Challenges, Perrine Toledano and Clara Roorda

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Report/Policy Paper: Managing the Public Trust: How to Make Natural Resource Funds Work for Citizens, Andrew Bauer, Perrine Toledano, and Malan Rietveld

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Report/Policy Paper: Meeting Summary of Colloquium on Policy, Law, Contracts, and Sustainable Development, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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Report/Policy Paper: Outcome Report of Roundtable on Governing Natural Resources, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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Report/Policy Paper: Outcome Report of Roundtable on Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) of Large-Scale Foreign Investments, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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Report/Policy Paper: State Control over Interpretation of Investment Treaties, Lise Johnson and Merim Razbaevea

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Report/Policy Paper: The Impact of Investment Treaties on Governance of Private Investment in Infrastructure, Lise Johnson

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Report/Policy Paper: The Mauritius Convention on Transparency: Comments on the Rreaty and Its Role in Increasing Transparency of Investor-State Arbitration, Lise Johnson

Publications from 2013

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Article: Ask the Experts: Mining, Lisa E. Sachs

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Article: Cameroon Pastoralists Fight for their Way of Life, Kaitlin Y. Cordes

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Article: Great Debate: Mining in Latin America, Lisa E. Sachs

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Article: Investor-State Contracts, Host-State “Commitments” and the Myth of Stability in International Law, Lise Johnson and Oleksandr Volkov

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Article: Mobil v. Canada – Ratcheting Down the Scope of Treaty Reservations, Lise Johnson

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Article: On Solid Ground: Toward Effective Resource-Based Development, Lisa E. Sachs

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Article: Shared-Use Infrastructure: A Prickly Partnership Takes Root, Perrine Toledano

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Article: Why the Extractive Industry Should Support Mandatory Transparency: A Shared Value Approach, Julien Topal and Perrine Toledano

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Book: Mining Contracts: How to Read and Understand Them, International Senior Lawyers Project, OpenOil, Revenue Watch Institute-Natural Resource Governance Institue, and Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment

Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2011-2012, Karl P. Sauvant

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Memo/Briefing Note: Memo to the Obama Administration on the Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements, Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Lisa E. Sachs

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Report/Policy Paper: Community Development Funds and Agreements in Guinea Under the New Mining Code, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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Report/Policy Paper: Leveraging Paraguay’s Hydropower for Sustainable Economic Development, Perrine Toledano and Nicolas Maennling

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Report/Policy Paper: New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules on Transparency: Application, Content and Next Steps, Lise Johnson

Publications from 2012

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Article: Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Insurance for Overseas Investments: The Example of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Lise Johnson

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Article: Devil in the Bidding Detail, Lisa E. Sachs, Jacky Mandelbaum, and Perrine Toledano

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Article: Inching Towards Consensus: An Update on the UNCITRAL Transparency Negotiations, Lise Johnson

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Article: Intra-African Investment – A Pressing Issue, Lise Johnson and Shawn Pelsinger

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Article: Openness in Extraction, Lisa E. Sachs and Shefa Siegel

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Article: The 2012 US Model BIT and What the Changes (or Lack Thereof) Suggest About Future Investment Treaties, Lise Johnson

Book: Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions, Karl Sauvant, Lisa E. Sachs, and Wouter P.F. Schmit Jongbloed

Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2010-2011, Karl P. Sauvant

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Report/Policy Paper: Background Paper for Second Workshop on Contract Negotiation Support for Developing Host Countries, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment and Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance

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Report/Policy Paper: Can Timor-Leste Rely on its Endowments to Achieve the Strategic Development Plan Targets?, Nicolas Maennling

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Report/Policy Paper: Leveraging Extractive Industry Infrastructure Investments for Broad Economic Development: Regulatory, Commercial and Operational Models for Railways and Ports, Perrine Toledano

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Report/Policy Paper: Leveraging the Mining Industry’s Energy Demand to Improve Host Countries’ Power Infrastructure, Perrine Toledano

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Report/Policy Paper: Paper on the Business Case for Transparency, Perrine Toledano

Publications from 2011

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Article: Wider Role for Our Miners in Africa, Lisa E. Sachs, Joel Negin, and Glenn Denning

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Memo/Briefing Note: Memo to the SEC on the Proposed Rule on Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers, Perrine Toledano

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Report/Policy Paper: Zambezi Valley Development Study, Lisa E. Sachs and Perrine Toledano

Books from 2010

Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2009-2010, Karl P. Sauvant

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Report/Policy Paper: Investment Promotion Agencies and Sustainable FDI: Moving toward the Fourth Generation of Investment Promotion, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies

Publications from 2009

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Article: Bilateral Investment Treaties and FDI Flows, Lisa E. Sachs

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Book: Handbook for Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Medium-size, Low-Budget Cities in Emerging Markets, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment and Millennium Cities Initiative

Book: The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment: Bilateral Investment Treaties, Double Taxation Treaties and Investment Flows, Karl Sauvant and Lisa E. Sachs

Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2008-2009, Karl P. Sauvant