{"id":4869,"date":"2017-12-21T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:28:13","slug":"towards-an-indicative-list-of-fdi-sustainability-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2017\/12\/21\/towards-an-indicative-list-of-fdi-sustainability-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an Indicative List of FDI Sustainability Characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Karl P. Sauvant and Howard Mann, Published by E15 Initiative, October 2017<\/h3>\n<p>To meet the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change commitments, foreign direct investment (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>FDI<\/span>) flows would have to increase significantly. However, the issue is not only more FDI, but the right kind of FDI\u2014what is referred to as \u201csustainable FDI,\u201d that is, investment that has certain sustainability characteristics. The paper seeks to make an important contribution to the international investment debate by highlighting particular desirable characteristics of FDI, outlining how these can be promoted and encouraged, and providing guidance so that national and international efforts in investment law and policy contribute fully to the achievement of these goals. Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/e15initiative.org\/publications\/towards-an-indicative-list-of-fdi-sustainability-characteristics\/\">http:\/\/e15initiative.org\/publications\/towards-an-indicative-list-of-fdi-sustainability-characteristics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','foreign direct investment'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','Investment Court System'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips118','Union europ\u00e9enne'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips119','Uni\u00f3n Europea'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper seeks to make an important contribution to the international investment debate by highlighting particular desirable characteristics of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>FDI<\/span>, outlining how these can be promoted and encouraged, and providing guidance so that national and international efforts in investment law and policy contribute fully to the achievement of these goals. <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','foreign direct investment'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','Investment Court System'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[1952,2094,1920],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-fdi","tag-sdg","tag-sustainable-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}