The Politics of Transparency and Accountability A strong push for greater ‘transparency and accountability’ has brought significant disclosure gains to the extractive industries. This is no small feat ...

To be beneficial for a country’s development, non-renewable resource extraction should be leveraged to build long-term assets—such as transportation, power, water, and information and communications ...

Coffee, one of the world’s most popular beverages, provides livelihoods for at least 60 million people across dozens of countries. Promoting the long-term health, wellbeing, and environmental ...

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Sponsors Partial support for the 2026 training is provided by ALIGN. ALIGN supports governments, civil society, communities and peoples, and other relevant actors in strengthening the governance of ...

Aligning investment with sustainable development to improve human wellbeing, reduce inequality, and operate within safe planetary boundaries.

What are International Investment Treaties (IITs)? IITs (also called International Investment Agreements, or IIAs) are bilateral or multilateral treaties that commit state-parties to afford specific ...

The EU started it In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community—the predecessor of the European Union (EU)—spearheaded an initiative to promote international cooperation in the energy sector, ...

The general misalignment to science-based targets is particularly concerning because any misalignment to them practically nullifies any existing net-zero pledge. Furthermore, the threshold this ...

In partnership with the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Equitable Origin, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), CCSI created “ Mapping the Renewable Energy Sector to ...

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 study reviews 40 Swiss IIAs – agreements concluded over roughly the past 50 years – in light of those five principles. Based on that review, the report concludes both that Swiss IIAs often risk ...