Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law

Edited by Kate Miles, Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK

• Contents:1. International investment law and the environment: introduction Kate MilesPart I. Environmental Issues and Investment Law2. Foreign investment and the environment in international law: current trends Jorge E. Viñuales3. Sustainable development and international investment lawAndrea K. Bjorklund 4. Water and investmentUrsula Kriebaum 5. Combating climate change through the promotion of green investment: from Kyoto to Paris without regime-specific dispute settlement of climate change and investment law and policyFreya Baetens 6. International investment law and biodiversityAnastasia Telesetsky 7. Environment and human rights in an investment law frameElliot Luke Part II. Disputes, Procedure and Practice in the Field8. Treatment standards in environment-related investor-state disputesChester Brown and Domenico Cucinotta9. Procedural issues and innovations in environment-related investor-state disputes Judith Levine and Nicola Peart 10. Use of science in environment-related investor-state arbitrationJacqueline Peel 11. Green multilateralism: 'mega FTAs' and the changing interface between environmental regulation and investment protectionSam Luttrell 12. Does the green economy need investor-state dispute settlement?Kyla Tienhaara Part III. Regional Perspectives13. Going green? The evolution of environmental provisions in India’s investment treaties Romesh Weeramantry and Montse Ferrer14. Stabilisation clauses in long-term investment contracts in the energy sector in AfricaSotonye Frank 15. Environmental concerns and China’s international investment agreementsDanni Liang 16. Balancing economic objectives and environmental considerations in new EU investment agreements: a brave new world? Rumiana Yotova 17. Investment claims against Latin American states: environmental protection and the applicable law Gabriel Bottini and Eliza Méndez Bräutigam Part IV. Identity, Critique and Conceptualisation18. Environment, foreign investment and genderRachel J. Anderson 19. Natural resources and indigenous cultural heritage in international investment law and arbitrationValentina Vadi 20. Local communities, environment and development: the case of oil and gas investment in AfricaIbironke Odumosu-Ayanu 21. Socially and environmentally responsible investment Benjamin J. Richardson Index

‘Overall, the Handbook is a valuable resource. It provides a detailed and probing analysis of various facets of the investment-environment relationship, despite some chapters being slightly editorial. The Handbook’s key added value is its analysis on investment and environmental law regimes. More generally, while the Handbook provides certain analysis focussed on reconciling investment and environmental law protections it is largely limited to a lex lata analysis, rather than providing a lex ferenda vision for how investment and environmental norms, principles, and treaties may be harmoniously applied or interpreted. In this regard, scholars and academics searching for strong base material in these areas will find the Handbook useful, but the Handbook, for the most part, does not go on to chart new territory on investment and environment. Given the rapid acceleration of investment into environmentally sensitive or environment adjacent projects the investment environment nexus will surely continue to grow and the Handbook provides an overall solid starting place for those seeking to understand the legal relationship between the two regimes.’