Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint Center of Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School; Associate Professor of Professional Practice at ...

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), in association with Steptoe LLP, hosted Session 4 of our four-part webinar series, Candid Reflections on Resource-Based Development. Mineral ...

Anjaly Ariyanayagam is a Strategy & Communications Officer at CCSI. She brings deep experience in strategic messaging and a strong belief in the power of participatory processes to drive sustainable ...

Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash. Also available in PDF.También disponible en español (PDF).. The EU started it. In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community—the predecessor of the European ...

Does the Company’s Net-Zero Target Include Scope 3 GHG Emissions? GHG accounting is crucial for companies to track and report on their GHG emissions and to monitor progress towards reduction targets.

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline’s construction permits and halting the pipeline as utterly incompatible with U.S. commitments ...

In 21 cases, investors brought claims based on arbitrary, unreasonable, or discriminatory measures by domestic courts, but failed in 18 of them. In GEA v.Ukraine, for example, the tribunal found “no ...

Also available in PDF.. Note: CCSI submitted a response to the OECD public consultation on investment treaties and climate change that builds on the text of this piece.. Existing investment treaties ...

Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment jointly published a new report: Recommendations to Update the FTC and DOJ’s Guidelines for ...

Leer la traducción al español. Read Spanish translation here. In September, a children’s cereal company threatened to sue Mexico over its adoption of a food packaging regulation. The details of the ...

[1] “A vulnerability is defined in the framework as a property of the financial system that: (i) reflects the accumulation of imbalances; (ii) may increase the likelihood of a shock; and (iii) when ...

[1] Two oil field service companies KBR and Halliburton Co. were charged with bribing Nigerian government officials over a 10-year period, in violation of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), ...