Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection: Incentives and Safeguards

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).

Pierre-Marie Dupuy is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris (Panthéon-Assas) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He also held the chair of general international law at the European University Institute in Florence (2000–8). Professor Dupuy has an extended experience in international law practice, in particular as counsel for governments in numerous cases before the International Court of Justice as well as international arbitrator in the field of international investments law. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International (International Law Institute).

Jorge E. Viñuales is the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law and an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, where he is also Director of the Programme on Environmental Governance at the Centre for International Environmental Studies.