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• Indonesia's Fuel Subsidies: Action plan for reform

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Countries Continue to Pursue Efforts to Increase Transparency in Investor–state Dispute Settlement
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» Lise JohnsonIn New York last week, a large number of countries, both developed and developing, strongly supported concrete options to ensure transparency in investor–state arbitrations. However, some delegations continue to actively block progress on these important efforts to improve UN arbitration rules.

India’s Many Investment Treaties Make it Vulnerable
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» Latha JishnuIISD's Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, in an interview with Down to Earth Magazine's Latha Jishnu, explains why India needs to take a fresh look at the many investment treaties it has signed.

Assessing the Outcomes of COP 17
In Pursuit of a Binding Climate Agreement: Negotiators expand the mitigation tent but reinforce the ambition gap
» Jessica BoyleIISD's climate change and energy team assesses the outcomes of the recent UN Climate Change Conference (COP 17) held in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 11, 2011.

Energy Subsidies: A deception?
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» Lucky LontohIISD consultant Lucky Lontoh comments on the government of Indonesia’s fossil-fuel subsidies, which will account for 17.6 per cent of every government dollar spent in 2012.

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