Financing the SDGs – International Investment Policy

Veranstaltungsart
Panel Discussion

Ort/Datum
Berlin, 05.10.2015

Veranstalter

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)


The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have beeen adopted in New York at the end of September 2015, but implementing them requires finance – some USD 3.9 trillion in annual investment, according to United Nations estimates. However, the current level of public and private investment in the relevant areas stands at just around USD 1.4 trillion, which means annual investment must increase dramatically to reach the SDGs. This will only be possible if public and private investors pool their efforts. Foreign direct investment plays a key role in sustainable-development financing, but what measures can and should be taken to promote such investment?

One much discussed instrument for encouraging foreign direct investment is entering investment treaties and free trade agreements with investment chapters. However, questions are increasingly being raised about the impact of such treaties on investment flows and about their costs and benefits for developing countries. An intensive debate about the potential for reforming the international investment regime is currently under way.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development (IPFSD) makes a key contribution to reform efforts in this area. Other propositions to improve the international investment regime include drafting new model investment agreements or amending existing ones. These initiatives provide the basis for discussing development-oriented investment policy options for shaping the global legal framework for future investments.

The event was organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Speakers:
Elisabeth Tuerk, Chief, International Investment Agreements Section, Division on Investment and Enterprises, UNCTAD – Presentation of the World Investment Report and the Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development: options for shaping investment treaties
Axel Berger, Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) – Investment treaties and political scope for promoting sustainable development

Panel discussion:
Markus Krajewski, Chair in Public Law and Public International Law, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Christoph Sprich, Senior Manager for International Trade and Development, Federation of German Industry (BDI)
Lise Johnson, Legal Researcher; Head: Investment Law and Policy, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment


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Veranstaltungsinformation

Datum / Uhr
05.10.2015 / 15:00 - 19:00

Ort

GIZ Repräsentanz – Berlin
Reichpietschufer 20
10785 Berlin

Specials

UN Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Highlight

Financing global development: Can foreign direct investments be increased through international investment agreements?
Berger, Axel
Briefing Paper 9/2015

Highlight

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, investor-state dispute settlement and China
Axel Berger/ Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen (2015)
in: Columbia FDI Perspectives, Perspectives on topical foreign direct investment issues (140)