The Big Fix, co-authored by CCSI Resident Senior Fellow, Denise Hearn, shows how corporate concentration is growing across many industries, leading to higher prices for consumers, lower worker’s wages ...

The agricultural, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sectors are responsible for 22% of global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. As many AFOLU investments exacerbate climate change impacts – including ...

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Investments in mining have the potential to transform economies. We provide resources and analysis aimed to help stakeholders—including governments of mineral-rich economies, mining companies, ...

Understanding the carbon footprint of countries and companies along the oil value chain is fundamental to outlining paths to reduced reliance on fossil fuels. Adopting a supply-chain approach, CCSI ...

To further and fully understand how to plan for the decarbonization of mining value chains, we need better data on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, neither consumers, ...

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint Center of Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School. Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and ...

Live since October 2015, CCSI’s OpenLandContracts.org is an online, searchable and user-friendly database of publicly available contracts for commercial agriculture, forestry and renewable energy ...

A framework of international, national, and sub-national laws and contracts governs international investment and is a fundamental factor in determining whether, when, and how countries and communities ...

CCSI, IIED, and Namati are partnering on an initiative called Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) to support governments, civil society, communities and peoples, and other relevant ...

The power, interests, incentives and political systemic dynamics underlying governance in the extractive industries have not been paid enough systematic attention. We must understand and address how ...

Une description en français est ci-dessous. Despite a recent transparency law and participation in transparency initiatives, Cameroon’s investment environment remains plagued by poor transparency. In ...