Sustainability Provisions in Canadian Investment Agreements with African LDCs: A Social Licence to Operate?
Article from: OGEL 1 (2020), in Social Licence to Operate (SLO)
Abstract
This article provides a critical comparative overview of sustainability disciplines in selected international investment agreements (IIAs), including bilateral investment treaties (BITs), with a particular focus on model IIAs and actual BITs concluded between Canada and several African countries. Our analysis demonstrates two general tendencies. First, an overwhelming number of BITs between capital-exporting states and African countries contain no express reference to the public and further societal interest of the host state. The same goes for BITs between a developing state ...