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CISDL COLLABORATIVE PUBLICATIONS LIST Legal Briefs and Working Papers Books 2009 – Published Books Book release: Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen, and beyond Publisher: Oxford University Press About the book Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum. This new book examines all the main legal and policy issues which are raised by emissions trading and carbon finance. It covers not only the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms but also the regional emission trading scheme in the EU and emerging schemes in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The Parties to the 1992 UN Framework Convention are in the process of negotiating a successor regime to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol whose first commitment period ends in 2012. As scientists predict that the threat of dangerous climate change requires much more radical mitigation actions, the negotiations aim for a more comprehensive and wide ranging agreement which includes new players - such as the US - as well as taking account of new sources (including aircraft emissions) and new mechanisms such as the creation of incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
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Book release: El nuevo marco legal para el cambio climático
Book release: Sustainable Development in International Investment Law Publisher: Kluwer Law International Introduction “For far too long, many have believed economic interests and environmental interests to be intrinsically opposed. The world is slowly waking from this out-dated belief, coming to recognize that both commerce and the conservation of natural resources are actually just means, rather than ends unto themselves. The common aim of their different labours is human well-being” (-Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) International investment law has significant sustainable development implications – both social and environmental. The legal aspects of sustainable development rights and responsibilities for investors and the best ways to ensure their observance is a particularly relevant subject matter as international investment laws continue to be negotiated, and principles developed through ad hoc tribunals increase in regularity. In addition, formal investment regimes such NAFTA’s Chapter 11 agreement, and the rapidly proliferating field of bi-lateral investment treaties (BITs, total number of 2,608 at the end of 2007), urgently require further examination as to their sustainability implications. The Intersection of World Investment Law and Sustainable Development Issues such as social development, human rights and the environment are becoming increasingly integrated within countries’ economic agendas. The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and the promulgation of the 2000 UN Millennium Development Goals and WTO’s 2001 Doha Development Agenda can be seen as the first steps towards more concrete integration between trade, environment and development issues. The subject is becoming increasingly fundamental and indeed today, some countries have developed new model international investment agreements (IIA) that reflect new concerns regarding environmental and social issues, including the host country’s right to regulate. For example, Art.10 of the 2007 Canada-Peru BIT aspires to provide the necessary regulatory flexibility to host states in pursuing specific sustainable development objectives, by assuring the parties’ right to enforce necessary measures in order to protect issues such as health and the conservation of exhaustible natural resources. The book’s objectives 1. The first objective of the Sustainable Development in International Investment Law book is to provide a critical examination of the interface between sustainability, development, and the governance of international investment through international treaties, domestic laws and the decisions of international judicial tribunals such as the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID), NAFTA’s and other arbitrational panels. 2. The book’s second objective is to provide a thorough review of the possibilities for integrating social and environmental considerations in such governance, so that the goals of sustainable development policy could be achieved without limiting countries’ economic development. About the book The Sustainable Development in World Investment Law book is divided in three sections, each of them dealing with cornerstone issues regarding the promotion of sustainable development through international investments. The first part of the book provides a review of the intersection between subjects such as the environment, development and human rights, with the increasingly expanding field of international investment law. The second part of the book opens with an in-depth examination of recent developments in investment law promulgation and procedures, such as the ones that can be found in procedural mechanisms, Amicus Curiae and others. This part then continues with a thorough overview of the relevant emerging trends in investment law, addressing important topics like general exceptions in IIAs, remedies, as well as a variety of current topics in law. The second part of the book closes with a comprehensive review of the implication of bi-lateral and regional investment law on sustainable development. This review includes issues such as water resources and an overview of recent developments in Asia-Pacific, the EU and in Latin America. The third part of the book deals with future directions of the relationship between sustainable development and international investment law. It provides proposals for and presents emerging issues relating to the promotion of sustainable development through international investment law. By gathering experts in legal fields related to sustainability and international investment law, Sustainable Development in International Investment Law presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of the intersection between international investment law and sustainable development.
2005 - 2007 Published Books: M.C. Cordonier Segger & M. Leichner Reynal, eds., Beyond the Barricades: An Americas Trade and Sustainability Agenda (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2005, 2nd ed.). Pre-publication announcement M. Gehring & M.C. Cordonier Segger, eds., Sustainable Developments in World Trade Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005). 2003 - 2005 Published Books: M.C. Cordonier Segger & A. Khalfan, Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practice and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). M.C. Cordonier Segger & C. G. Weeramantry, eds., Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Lieden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004). Pre-publication announcement C. Streck & D. Freestone, eds., Making Kyoto Work: Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Pre-publication announcement D. French, International Law and Policy of Sustainable Development (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004). W.B. Chambers & J. Green, eds., Reforming International Governance: From Institutional Limits, to Innovative Solutions (Tokyo: UNU Press, 2004). M. C. Cordonier Segger, A. Khalfan & S. Nakhjavani, eds., Weaving the Rules for Our Common Future: Principles, Practices and Prospects for an International Sustainable Development Law (Montreal: CISDL, 2002). M.C. Cordonier Segger & M.L. Reynal, eds., Beyond the Barricades of Quebec City: A Hemispheric Trade and Sustainability Agenda (Winnipeg: IISD / UNEP / IUCN, 2003, 1 ed.) Selected Books - Sustainable Development in World Trade Law, M. Gehring & M.C. Cordonier Segger, eds. (London: Kluwer Law International, 2005). - Beyond the Barricades: The Americas Trade and Sustainable Agenda, M.C. Cordonier Segger & M.L. Reynal, eds. (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2005). http://www.ashgate.com - Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms, D. Freestone & C. Streck, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). http://www.oup.co.uk - International Law and Policy of Sustainable Development, D. French (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005). - Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practice, and Prospects, M.C. Cordonier Segger & A. Khalfan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). http://www.oup.co.uk - Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law, M.C. Cordonier Segger & C. G. Weeramantry, eds. (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004). http://www.brill.nl |
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