Articulating a Vision on Sustainable Energy for All
The experience of countries around the world indicates the relationship that subsists between industrial development and economic growth on one hand and with environmental degradation on the other hand. Given the myriad challenges of environmental degradation and climate change, current policy advocacy centre on strengthening legal, regulatory and political institutions that guide domestic and international investment activities. i Further, discussions on a Post-2015 development agenda brought to fore issues of economic, social and environmental sustainability. For instance, with respect to international capital movements, in as much as foreign direct investment (FDI) holds the promise of positive externalities, there is also the tendency that FDI may induce negative externalities (pollution, natural resource degradation, inadequate protection of worker health and safety, and complicity in the violation of human rights all of which confound the tenets of sustainable development