2024 Reports

Facilitating climate friendly FDI: the importance of ongoing cooperation

Paine, Joshua; Sheargold, Elizabeth

Commitments to facilitate climate friendly FDI increasingly feature in investment facilitation agreements, in broader trade agreements and in non-binding green economy agreements. This Perspective argues that commitments for ongoing cooperation, which identify shared priorities and establish mechanisms for implementation, are a concrete way for treaties to facilitate climate friendly FDI.