When arbitration is included in State–investor contracts, how can arbitration clauses be redesigned to protect the public ...

Originally published by the Natural Resource Governance Institute. As leaders gather in New York to discuss how the UN can advance the principles and recommendations of the Secretary General’s Panel ...

Diagnosing how the sovereign ceiling functions as a simplifying shortcut that can obscure meaningful differences across borrowers, and proposing an alternative credit rating approach based on ...

This proposal aims to prevent foreign corporations from bypassing domestic courts and challenging regulations pursuing public interest objectives that threaten corporate profitability. Embedded in ...

This issue of CCSI Investment Perspectives was contributed by Aniruddha Pravin Jaydeokar. He is a Researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment with a focus on leveraging innovative ...

Coffee-growing communities face compounding sustainability challenges — from livelihood pressures and infrastructure gaps to inadequate social services — that no single actor can address alone. To ...

Distinguishing between planetary, economic, and financial risks, and the six distinct policy responses to them. This paper examines a range of public and private institutions whose mandates relate to ...

In international debt markets, the credit rating of a sovereign typically acts as a ceiling for all borrowers within that country. This briefing, enabled by the support of the Environmental Defense ...

Joint research by Hitachi and Columbia University highlights that without a coordinated global agreement, AI risks accelerating the very crises it could help solve. Read the report. Tokyo/New York — ...

Exploring how AI is reshaping sustainability transitions across planetary health, energy systems, industry and labor, finance, and democratic resilience — where the same capabilities that open new ...

Corporate net-zero commitments have become the dominant framework for private-sector climate action, yet the proliferation of targets, methodologies, and disclosure has not translated into ...