Multinational Enterprise and International Investment Law

Conflict between International Investment Protection System and International Environmental Law

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.154How to use a DOI?

Keywords

international investment protection system; environmental protection rules; conflict of laws

Abstract

The concept of sustainable development is completely global and new nowadays. The word of sustainable development is strongly agreed upon by all countries, including developing countries and developed countries, since it was presented. Economy and social life will be greatly changed by implementing the strategy of sustainable development, and the change and development of social existence must inflect the change and development of social ideology as social existence decides social ideology, and the law as the superstructure must also be inflected by it. International environmental law and international investment law, which is one of the most important branches of international economic law must make sense of sustainable development, too. Although sustainable development has not been accepted by international society universally as a basic principle of international economic law, it is sure that the acceptance just needs some time. Sustainable development is becoming one of the basic principles of international economic law. The shape of the theory of sustainable development has its social, economic, and legal foundation. To seek the development of economy, man has asked more from nature, and a series of problems come along with it, such as the pollution of the environment, the shortage of resources, etc, all these make people realize the importance of sustainable development. And with the increasing prosperity of international investment, there are many cases of multinational companies using the international investment protection system to evade the environmental law sanctions. Still, at present there is less attention to this problem, so this paper studies this problem through the analysis of relevant examples and tries to give some views to solve this problem.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhongkai Niu
AU  - Yi Wang
AU  - Tianhao Wu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Multinational Enterprise and International Investment Law
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 902
EP  - 906
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.154
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.154
ID  - Niu2021
ER  -