The outsized impacts of investment frameworks on responsible land-based investments

Governments are often seeking responsible investments for sustainable outcomes. Land-based investments are governed by a tangled web of domestic and international rules that overlap with one another and interact with responsible investment objectives.

At times, these rules can create barriers for realising responsible land-based investment, but they can also be tools to shape responsible practices and sustainable outcomes, if carefully drafted and implemented.

This Governance Flash examines the problems with investment frameworks, why they are important to governments and what governments can do about them.

ALIGN Governance Flashes are a series of short guidance notes designed to alert government officials of critical land-based investment governance considerations and possible responses to issues that might be falling through the cracks, leading to conflicts and poor outcomes.