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• Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2011/January 2012

• Assessing the Outcomes of COP 17
  In Pursuit of a Binding Climate Agreement: Negotiators expand the mitigation tent but reinforce the ambition gap

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In Their Own Words

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.

The Legal Monster that lets Companies Sue Countries
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» Mahnaz MalikIISD Associate, Mahnaz Malik, comments on the dangerous rise of investor-state investment arbitration as both developed and developing country governments face treaty claims from foreign investors bypassing national and European Union law.

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