International Investment Agreements

A UNCTAD report highlights the interplay between efforts to tackle tax avoidance and protect investment, calling for accelerated reforms to align investment agreements with new global tax rules.

Proactive investment facilitation is key to attracting funding in vital areas such as renewables, health and infrastructure for developing countries.

UNCTAD presents a new toolbox to make international investment agreements actively support the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.

They have developed principles to guide investment policies in accelerating progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 57 countries.

Reforms are essential to ensure investment treaties and associated investor-state disputes don’t hinder countries’ efforts to tackle climate change.

Developing countries could lose out on tax revenues due to capacity and legal constraints on the implementation of needed reforms, UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2022 says.

The data set, provided free of charge, covers all known cases of treaty-based investor-state arbitrations as of July 2020.

UNCTAD upgrades a reform package to realign international investment governance with global sustainability targets.

There is a pressing need for systematic reform of the international investment agreements (IIAs) regime to bring it in line with today's sustainable development imperative. Today the question is not whether or not to reform, but about the what, how and extent of such reform.

States' recent steps to reform the international investment regime, aligning it with today's sustainable development imperative, were at the centre of discussion at a Conference, co-organized by UNCTAD and CCSI, in New York on 10-11 November 2015.