10th Annual Columbia International Investment Conference

10th Annual Columbia International Investment Conference

IPS Fellow Manuel Pérez-Rocha will be a panelist for “Session VI: Moving forward with IIA Reform” in the conference on “Investment Treaty Reform: Reshaping Economic Governance in the Era of Sustainable Development.”

Only Connect

Only Connect

Kaganga John acts locally to promote sustainable development in his Ugandan village, but he thinks globally.

Big Meetings

Big Meetings

I’d much rather that representatives of the world’s nations gather on a regular basis to bore themselves to death in a conference rather than beat themselves to death in a war. Make resolutions, not war is the bumper sticker of the future.

The Elephant in Rio

The Elephant in Rio

Don’t bank on a new “green economy” to solve our climate challenges.

Conference: Pricing Carbon

Conference: Pricing Carbon

A carbon tax was always going against the grain — against the presumption that the most straightforward and effective approach to carbon emissions pricing couldn’t prevail over America’s special-interest politics and tax aversion — and against the smart money that insisted on hiding the price and buying off the opposition.