Against the background of today's debate on how to close the financing gap for meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UNCTAD briefs UN delegates in New York on two key policy instruments that can help mobilize investment and channel it to sustainable development sectors.
UNCTAD's Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development, updated in 2015, offers core principles for sustainable development-friendly investment policymaking.
Based on these principles it also provides guidelines for national investment policies, guidance for the design and use of international investment treaties, and an Action Menu for the promotion of investment in sustainable development.
The pursuit of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda will also require a reform of regime of the international investment treaties (which currently consists of over 3,300 treaties).
UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2015: Reforming International Investment Governance (WIR 2015) offers a menu of options for the reform of this treaty regime, together with a roadmap to guide policymakers at the national, bilateral, regional and multilateral levels.
The Report also proposes a set of principles and guidelines to ensure coherence between international tax and investment policies.
