Organised by the Centre for International Environmental Studies Programme on Institutions for Sustainable Development, this two-day symposium will gather some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary international environmental law and policy (IEL) in order to provide specific answers to the question of how the private sector can be harnessed for environmental protection.

Topics will include:
 

• A critical assessment of the techniques used so far to implement IEL
• An in-depth analysis of the tools that could be used to incentivise the participation of the private sector (e.g. environmental finance, mechanisms such as the CDM, JI or REDD, benefit sharing arrangements, insurance schemes, and environmental goods and services)
• The tools to govern the new involvement of the private sector in environment-related projects abroad (through mechanisms such as FDI dispute settlement, CSR and new accountability mechanisms, transnational environmental contracts, socially responsible investment guidelines, and environmental litigation)

Speakers:

Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia 
              
Catherine MacKenzie, University of Cambridge

Liliana Andonova, Graduate  Institute  
                    
Konstantina K. Athanasakou, White and Case

Riccardo Pavoni, University of  Siena

Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Graduate Institute

Benjamin Richardson, University of British Columbia

Daniel Firger, Columbia Law School
   
Swenja Surminski, London School of Economics and Grantham Institute

Francesco Francioni, European University Institute

Timothy Swanson, Graduate Institute

Yann Kerbrat, Aix Marseille III

Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Aix-Marseille III

Jorge E. Viñuales, Graduate Institute

Magnus-Jesko Langer, Graduate Institute    

More information about the full programme


To register to this event please send an email to cies@graduateinstitute.ch  before the 14th of May.
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132 rue de Lausanne, Site Barton
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