Is this man a Singaporean investor in Australia? Can his affiliated companies use #ISDS to win a dispute about variation of a mining agreement with WA that he lost in Australia's High Court? What are the implications for Australia's federal constitutional structure? /1

Great new ⁦UNIDO⁩ report on the future of industrialization. I was happy to be part of the advisory team with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Carlos Lopes, Justin Lin, Mariana Mazzucato, Jose Antonio Ocampo, @KunalSen5, and others. Free download: bit.ly/3Ef9aRb

the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives has another very useful paper on the issue of shareholder claims for reflective loss in ISDS. The issue will be discussed this week in UNCITRAL's WGIII informal session tinyurl.com/r9ff6chd

Last week the World World Gold Council released incredibly useful data showing the breakdown of costs for member gold #mining companies, showing in 2020 more than half of all spending went to the #procurement of goods ands services buff.ly/32WOUpA #globaldev #EITI #localcontent

$530m portés disparus. #Gécamines les avait eu des miniers et versés comme avances fiscales à la #BCC. Destinés au Trésor, Inspection générale des finances craint que c parti pr "autre chose". #CongoHoldUp montre qu'il y a de quoi s'inquiéter. 👉 resourcematters.org/530-millions-p… RFI Mediapart @pplaaf

📣 All 30+ session recordings from IISD' Trade and Sustainability Hub are now available! 📺 Watch them at your convenience and share with colleagues 👉 iisd.org/events/trade-a… #TradeAndSustainabilityHub CUTS Geneva Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

WEBINAR: International investment agreements (IIAs) & climate action --> iied.org/international-… In partnership with UN Trade and Development, this event on 4 February will bring together diverse experts & stakeholders to discuss reform of the #IIAs regime for #ClimateChange goals.

Exciting news The British Yearbook of International Law! Our new book review essay by Jean Ho (Dr, FCIArb) on investment law is out! On books by @EsmeShirlow @taylor__stjohn Federico Ortino !

Establishing a national agency to prevent & manage #investment disputes is often perceived as a promising way to avoid the risk of costly #ISDS claims. But how do these agencies operate & what are their effects? Jonathan Bonnitcha & Zoe P. Williams explore: bit.ly/dpma-report

A must-read for any one working on investment policy! Thanks to Jonathan and Zoe for their excellent paper!

Looking forward to this exciting event tomorrow! 👇 Hamed El Kady UNCTAD Trade Tara Van Ho @MartinBrauch Alicia Nicholls Nicolás Perrone Olabisi D. Akinkugbe Thierry Berger @LCotula IIED UN Trade and Development

📝 REPORT CARD: Romany Webb, senior fellow at Sabin Center, and CSLDF’s Lauren Kurtz review the president’s actions on climate change after one year in office. “The Biden administration—and Congress—must move faster on the hard challenges.” bit.ly/3HchrqA

On Monday, IPCC noted investment treaties' role for climate policy. Today, we've released contributions to OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives's public consultation on this topic. Overview below (alphabetical) doesn't do justice to submissions, so authors may wish to elaborate. oecd.org/investment/inv…. 1/39

New Boston University Global Development Policy Center study in Science Magazine shows how investment treaties can choke the climate transition & swallow $300billion Adam Tooze Inside U.S. Trade @climate_trade Lise Johnson Thomas Hale Kate Aronoff Thea Riofrancos Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Justin Guay

Join OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives annual investment treaties conference on tue 10th May, including second session on impact of investment treaties on policy space for climate policies with Anne van Aaken NIKIEMA H. Suzy Joshua Paine Info and registration: oecd.org/investment/con…

Great news-#Australia new govt will aggressively negotiate removal of #ISDS from trade & investment agmts. Jonathan Bonnitcha Anthea Roberts @taniavoon @bilaterals_org@SimonBatifort Mona Paulsen Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) Lise Johnson Zoe P. Williams @AntoniaEliason @alanbeattie @AratoJulian

📢Call for abstracts!📢 Human Rights and International Investment Law PhD Workshop, taking place online on 27 and 28 October 2022. Deadline 31 July 🗓️ eur.nl/en/events/huma…

New investment law research shows “asymmetrical patterns of engagement and influence in shaping the law, tilting the balance [away] from Global South states” #InvestmentLaw Journal of International Dispute Settlement Lise Johnson academic.oup.com/jids/article-a…

New paper: literature on int'l investment law has mainly focused on what the regime has: investor rights and ISDS, but much less on what lacks: investor obligations. This paper claims that what is missing is key to understanding the evolution of this legal regime