POTENTIAL POINTS OF ENTRY

Potential Points of Entry

The following links are a list of “Potential Points of Entry” for the insertion of sustainable and ethical investment rules. These points of entry are institutions and mechanisms at the global, national, and subnational level. These include the fora in which investor rights are negotiated and arbitrated, such as the WTO and the ICSID, as well as national regulators such as the SEC and international treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol.

Multilateral Institutions and Global Mechanisms

• Aarhus Convention
• Bank for International Settlements
• Financial Stability Forum
• Earth Summit 2002, Sustainable Finance: Seeking Global Financial Security
• www.ifrs.org/About-us/IASB
• International Organization of Securities Commissions
• IMF Financial Sector Assessment Program
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Finance and Investment Program
• WTO Trade and Investment page

United Nations

• UN Financing For Development Conference: March, 2002
• UN Conference on Trade and Development: International Investment Agreements page
• UN Commission on International Trade Law
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• UN Global Compact Homepage

World Bank Group

• World Bank International Financial Architecture Page
• International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes Homepage
• International Finance Corporation
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Regional Investment Agreements

• FTAA Draft Agreement, Chapter on Investment
• AIA, the Asean Investment Area
• NAFTA’s Chapter 11

Governmental Organizations

• European Commission: Trade
• U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty Program Homepage
• United States Trade Representative Investment Page (USTR)
• United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
• United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• United States Department of Treasury