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Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds to Avoid Investment Protectionism
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Oxford Academic
, 2015 , Article)
Chinese and Emirati purchases of US companies have collapsed because of suspicions that their Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) status is a disguise for political ambitions. SWFs have grown in size and number, drawing the attention ...
Decarbonizing Bitcoin: Law and policy choices for reducing the energy consumption of Blockchain technologies and digital currencies
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
The vast transactional, trust and security advantages of Bitcoin are dwarfed by the intentionally resource-intensive design in its transaction verification process which now threatens the climate we depend upon for survival. ...
The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law. Edited by CINNAMON P CARLARNE, KEVIN R GRAY and RICHARD TARASOFSKY
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Oxford University Press
, 2017 , Article)
The urgency of climate change necessitates considering what types of governance options are available when the existing approaches are failing.1
The United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) Secretariat’s ...
Measuring Qatar's compliance with international standards on money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose: Under scrutiny in light of the growing threat of international terrorism, Qatar faces pressure and accusations that it is not doing enough to counter terror financing and clamp down money laundering. The issue is ...
Enforcement Activism of the EU’ cement Activism of the EU’s Renewable Ener s Renewable Energy Directive During the Global Financial Crisis
(2014 , Article)
The American “shale revolution”1
has been an economic blessing
in a troubled time,2
a blessing the EU (“European Union”) has largely not
enjoyed.3
It may prove, however, to have been a double-edged sword. If
the ...
Maritime Emissions Taxation: An Alternative to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
(2014 , Article)
The advent of the eighteenth session of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Conference of the Parties (COP18)1 internationalized a new sense
of urgency2 towards preventing the planet ...
Mending Lacunas in the EU’s GDPR and Proposed Artificial Intelligence Regulation
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Sciendo
, 2022 , Article)
The European Union (EU) is leading in the regulation of data privacy and artificial intelligence through the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the proposed European Commission (EC) regulation, and the proposed ...
Big Data Analytics and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law: A Study of the Ramotswa Aquifer
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Brill
, 2022 , Book chapter)
Big data analytics is transforming the water sector at the national and international levels. Its potential impact on transboundary water resource governance is being assessed, for example, in the context of selected basins, ...