Negotiations at WTO and UNFCCC are both in limbo putting at risk international cooperation in key sectors of world development. International governance options are urgently needed to strengthen multilateral negotiations at the WTO and UNFCCC to avoid full deadlock and possible major trade and environmental conflicts. This policy brief written in June 2011 offers solutions which are not “WTO-UNFCCC speak” but rather based on “out of the box thinking”.
This contribution focuses on the drivers, determinants and policy implications of low-carbon FDI, with particular attention to developing countries. Parts of this paper served as an input to Chapter IV of the World Investment Report 2010, which examined the issue of TNCs and Climate Change. The authors are however free to use all of the reflections presented below for their own publications.
Niederberger, A.A. & Saner, R. 2005. Exploring the relationship between FDI flows and CDM potential. Transnational Corporations, 14 (1): 1-40
Staehelin-Witt, E., Saner, R., & Pfeifer, B.W. 2005. Negotiating environmental conflicts: Economic, sociological, and legal aspects of environmental negotiations in the Alpine region. Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich.
Yiu, Lichia; Saner, Raymond; Yong, Jiong; "Stakeholder Analysis of Trans-Border Regional Cooperation on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia", Social Strategies (Ed. Trappe, Paul), Vol. 36, pp. 324-339, 2002.