Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection

This volume provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary analysis of the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection by leading scholars and practitioners.

Covering both incentives (funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments for ecosystem services, insurance) and safeguards (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts, codes of conduct), this volume investigates the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection from legal, economic and political perspectives.Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct).