Economic Law and Policy
About Economic Law and Policy
Our experts focus on areas of economic policy-making that are essential to sustainable development, including investment, trade, public procurement and infrastructure finance and sustainability standards.
Our sector-specific work focuses on agriculture and mining in developing countries, given the urgency of the reforms needed and the impact on sustainable development.
IISD also serves as the secretariat to the Intergovermental Forum on Mining, Minerals Metals and Sustainable Development, a member-driven organization providing governments the opportunity to work collectively to achieve their sustainable mining goals.
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Brochure
Brochure
Leveraging Sustainable Markets for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
IISD launched the Leveraging Sustainable Markets for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development project, facilitating poverty reduction among marginalized commodity producers by enabling more strategic and proactive entry into value-added sustainable markets for less-developed countries.
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Book
Book
State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standards and the Extractive Economy
This report examines voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSIs), and their aim to promote sustainable production practices in the mining sector.
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Blog
Blog
Cleaning up Toxic Soils in China: A trillion-dollar question
In its latest effort to address environmental problems, China has adopted its first soil pollution law. However, how to finance the remediation of the damage already done remains a big question.
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Report
Report
Financing Soil Remediation: Exploring the use of financing instruments to blend public and private capital
A collection of 17 case studies on a variety of financing instruments that blend public and private capital that could be used to finance the remediation of contaminated soil.
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Report
Report
Green Finance Approaches to Soil Remediation: International examples
A collection of seven case studies on different financing instruments used to support soil remediation projects.
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Report
Report
Financing Models for Soil Remediation in China
This report examines seven different types of soil remediation projects in China and provides a "state-of-play" survey of financing models for soil rehabilitation in China.
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Blog
Blog
Lack of competition with new GBP 600 million public procurement deal between the U.K. and Amazon may cost taxpayers
An online one-stop shop is a great opportunity for sustainable procurement, but the Yorkshire–Amazon example holds some cautionary notes.
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Annual Report
Our experts
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Andrea Bassi
Senior Associate -
Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder
Group Director, Economic Law & Policy -
Matthew Bliss
Deputy Director, Programs, IGF -
Jonathan Bonnitcha
Associate -
Martin Dietrich Brauch
Associate -
Sarah Brewin
Associate, Agriculture and Investment Advisor -
Liesbeth Casier
Project Officer -
Stacy Corneau
Media and Communications Officer -
Aaron Cosbey
Senior Associate -
Mohamed Coulibaly
Associate -
Joy De Los Reyes
Program Assistant, Economic Law and Policy -
Joëlle Deschambault
Project Administrator -
Tristan Easton
Project Manager -
Travis Gowryluk
Financial Project Manager, Economic Law and Policy -
Mark Halle
Senior Fellow -
Veena Jha
Associate -
Cristina Larrea
Sustainability Standards Workstream Lead -
Howard Mann
Associate & Senior International Law Advisor -
Kieran McDougal
Associate -
Thomas A. Myers
Senior Fellow -
Clémence Naré
Outreach and Engagement Manager, IGF -
Suzy H. Nikièma
International Law Advisor -
Georg Pallaske
Associate -
Oshani Perera
Director, Public Procurement and Infrastructure Finance -
Francine Picard Mukazi
Associate -
Greg Radford
Director, IGF -
Isabelle Ramdoo
Senior Associate and Development Economist -
Alexandra Readhead
Associate -
Marina Ruete
Associate -
Carin Smaller
Senior Policy Advisor and Team Leader, Agriculture and Investment. -
Flavia Thomé
Senior Operations Manager -
Laura Turley
Associate -
David Uzsoki
Project Officer -
Scott Vaughan
President and Chief Executive Officer -
Vivek Voora
Associate -
Laurin Wuennenberg
Researcher, Innovation -
Simon Zadek
Senior Fellow and Associate -
Joe Zhang
Law Advisor -
Juan Zhang
Associate, China Representative