IISD is registered as a acknowledges the support of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, charitable organization in Canada and has 501(c)(3) Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) and the status in the United States. [...] While the support of both was instrumental to this project, operating support from the Government of Canada, the findings and opinions herein are those of the authors provided through the Canadian International alone, and should not be attributed to the funders. [...] Development Agency (CIDA), the International The report is supplemented by several pieces of original research, which substantially informed the analysis: case Development Research Centre (IDRC) and studies on clean energy investment in Ukraine, Kazakhstan Environment Canada; and from the Province of and Nigeria. [...] The first need is for analytical national studies that highlight the obstacles to clean energy investment and the potential for profitable investment of this type. [...] It is also conceivable that the mandate of the Energy Charter Treaty could be recast to include the type of capacity building conceived of here, given its basic mandate to foster investment in energy, and its association with the objectives of energy efficiency and the environment.