Natural Resources

The forthcoming G20 Leaders’ Summit on 5-6 September 2013 (pictured above left, credit) will expectedly focus on US President Barack Obama taking advantage of bilateral and multilateral talks at this forum to press the case for intervention in Syria to other world leaders. Against the urgency of proposed Syrian intervention, however, the Summit does promise to take up quietly equally urgent issues on global economic and regulatory governance.  What would be of interest to international lawyers is the Summit’s upcoming consideration of the September 2013 G2O/OECD High-Level Principles of Long-Term Investment Financing by Institutional Investors.  These Principles proclaim to “help policy makers design a policy and regulatory framework which encourages institutional investors to act in line with their investment horizon and risk-return objectives, enhancing their capacity to provide a stable source of capital for the economy and facilitating the flow of capital into long-term investments.  The principles…