Liberalizing the Global Supply Chain of Renewable Energy Technology: The Role of International Investment Law in Facilitating Flows of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade

1 International Energy Agency, Perspectives for the Energy Transition – Investment Needs for a Low Carbon Energy System (Bonn: iea/irena, 2017), https://www.iea.org/publications/ insights/insightpublications/PerspectivesfortheEnergyTransition.pdf, accessed 1 November 2018, p. 8. * The authors would like to emphasize that the names of the authors appear in alphabetical order, both have contributed equally. ** The Special Issue ‘International Law for the Sustainable Development Goals’ is a research outcome of the 2017–2018 Workshop Series ‘International Law for the Sustainable Development Goals’ organised by the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen. Mando Rachovitsa and Marlies Hesselman led the organisation of these workshops. The series included 8 workshops which explored the role and relevance of international law to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Special Issue includes some of the papers presented at the workshops and papers submitted to an open Call for Papers. More information is available at https://www.rug.nl/rechten/ congressen/il4sdgs/.