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Regulating the Impacts of International Project Financing: The Equator Principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Cynthia A. Williams*
Affiliation:
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Regulating the Impacts of International Project Financing
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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References

1 The results of our inquiry are reported in Conley, John M. & Williams, Cynthia A., Global Banks as Global Sustainability Regulators? The Equator Principles, 33 Law & Pol’y 542 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and form the basis for my comments.

2 The EPs themselves and the list of signatories are available at http://www.equator-principles.com.

3 Lawrence, Robert & Thomas, William, The Equator Principles and Project Finance: Sustainability in Practice, 19 Nat. Resources & Env’t 21, 21–27 (2004)Google Scholar.

4 See HSBC website at http://www.hsbc.com/citizenship/sustainability (Equator Principles and Sector Policies link).

5 See Cynthia A. Williams & John M. Conley, The Social Reform of Banking, available at http://www.ssrn.com/author=133969.

6 See Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009), for further discussion of the norms of investment bankers in the United States, or The Salz Review, at www.salzreview.co.uk, for a discussion of the norms at Barclays and among investment bankers in London generally.