Investment contracts are a central but often overlooked component of investment governance. This brief explains why reforming them is essential to ensure coherence with treaties and domestic laws, reduce risks for governments, and better align investment with sustainable development.
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards and private sector actors can prevent, respond to, recover from, and adapt to deforestation risks in global value chains.
This explainer breaks down European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requirements, provides an overview of steps that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) must take to ensure compliance, and highlights the role of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) as a tool to support compliance.
This workbook aims to provide a systematic overview and analysis of due diligence regulations by mapping their main provisions against common themes, serving as an initial step toward promoting interoperability.
The Investment Policy Forum (IPF) Manila Tool Kit assists governments to map and navigate between investment legal instruments and international commitments impacting investment.
The use of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) and similar systems in free trade agreements (FTAs) is gaining traction. Will it lead to more sustainable production and consumption globally?