Investment frameworks and responsible land-based investments: illustrating points of contact – a guide

Land-based investments are governed by a tangled web of domestic and international rules that overlap with one another.

This guide illustrates how investment frameworks – an influential subset of these rules – interact with responsible land-based investment (RLBI). It highlights key elements of investment frameworks and outlines the opportunities and barriers these frameworks present for realising responsible investment.

By mapping points of contact between investment frameworks and RLBI, the guide highlights how these frameworks interact and points to specific entry points for reform that can facilitate RLBI outcomes.

The guide does not map all points of contact between investment frameworks and RLBI. It provides examples of how investment treaties, national investment laws and investor–state contracts interact with key moments of the RLBI life cycle.

Through illustrating these points of contact, the guide aims to demystify the core connections that are most important for better understanding and shaping the interactions between a state’s investment obligations and responsible investment objectives.