Download or read book Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change written by Elbert de Jong and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As litigation rises against corporations and their climate change policies, this timely book examines their accountability and liability for climate change related matters. Covering both national and international law, it investigates approaches to corporate social responsibility, shedding light on how these strategies can help protect human rights and the environment. This book illustrates the potential and limitations of legal doctrines across human rights law, soft law, contract law, consumer law and non-contractual liability law for holding corporations responsible for climate change. The contributing authors explore interconnected aspects of corporate transnational climate law, relating contemporary problems to traditional areas of private law. Ultimately, this prescient book provides valuable legal insights into the challenges of corporate accountability and liability for climate change and identifies important pathways for the future of litigation. Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change is a valuable resource for students and scholars of corporate social responsibility and climate law and governance. It will also be of relevance to practitioners and policymakers with an interest in litigation and regulatory strategies.
Download or read book Climate Change Liability and Beyond written by Jiunn-rong Yeh、Sandrine Maljean-Dubois、Yann Kerbrat等 著 and published by 國立臺灣大學出版中心. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change and its adverse impacts on nature and human society are clearly felt. Who should bear the responsibility? Should anyone be held liable for grave losses and damages related to climate change? In what way and to what extent can these issues be addressed in legal mechanisms both globally and locally? Will an international liability regime an ultimate solution? Are courts ready for and capable of resolving these disputes that find intricacy of law, policy and science? To shed light on these issues, this book is structured with four main themes on the discussions of climate change liability and related mechanisms. They are: 1) state liability and responsibility, 2) climate change litigation, 3) climate change liability and alternatives, and 4) dispute resolution and remedies. Reflections on the concepts of liability/responsibly/accountability have provided for nuanced understandings of their functional dynamics in climate change governance. Our findings also suggest that International and domestic courts have become a vital player in attribution or distribution of climate change liability. In addition to formalistic rights discourse and rigid liability regime, a few alternatives such as carbon market, insurance, mediation or soft law are also finding their ways to ensuring sustainability of climate change governance.
Download or read book Climate Change Liability written by Michael Faure and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the growing issue of using liability as a tool for both preventing and compensating for the damage caused by climate change. Michael Faure and Marjan Peeters have brought together a selection of expert contributors who explore a variety of both national and European perspectives on the topic. Climate change liability is no longer only a theoretical idea since climate changelitigation has become so hotly debated and this book examines to what extent it can be used for mitigation and adaptation issues. Chapters discuss the potential role of liability within various legal systems, like the national systems of the USA and The Netherlands, but also EU and ECHR law. Liability is outlined in a broad perspective since not only compensation for damage suffered by plaintiffs isdiscussed, but also the need for prevention in order to obtain a reduction of greenhouse gases.
Download or read book Business Human Rights and the Environment The Evolving Agenda written by Chiara Macchi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the ‘protect, respect, remedy’ trichotomy. The UN Guiding Principles acted as a catalyst for hitherto unprecedented regulatory and judicial developments. The monograph by Macchi proposes a functionalist reading of the state’s duty to regulate the transnational activities of corporations in order to protect human rights and adopts a holistic approach to the corporate responsibility to respect, arguing that environmental and climate due diligence are inherent dimensions of human rights due diligence. In the volume emerging legislations are assessed on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence, as well as the potential and limitations of a binding international treaty on business and human rights. The book also reviews groundbreaking litigation against transnational corporations, such as Lungowe v. Vedanta or Milieudefensie v. Shell, for their human rights and climate change impacts. The book is primarily targeted at academic and non-academic legal experts, as well as at researchers and students looking at business and human rights issues through the lenses of legal studies (particularly international law and European law), political sciences, business ethics, and management. Additionally, it should also find a readership among practitioners working in the public or private sector (consultants, CSR officers, legal officers, etc.) willing to familiarize themselves with the expanding areas of liability, financial and reputational risks connected to the social and environmental impacts of global supply chains. Chiara Macchi is currently Lecturer in Law at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands.
Download or read book Climate Change Damage and International Law written by Roda Verheyen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the legal duties of states with regard to human induced climate change damage
Download or read book Climate Change Liability written by Richard Lord and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage. Actual or potential climate change liability implicates a growing range of actors, including governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, individuals and legal practitioners. Climate Change Liability provides an objective, rigorous and accessible overview of the existing law and the direction it might take in seventeen developed and developing countries and the European Union. In some jurisdictions, the applicable law is less developed and less the subject of current debate. In others, actions for various kinds of climate change liability have already been brought, including high profile cases such as Massachusetts v. EPA in the United States. Each chapter explores the potential for and barriers to climate change liability in private and public law.
Download or read book Climate Change Capitalism and Corporations written by Christopher Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of 'business as usual'. The authors explore the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change. Key discussion points include climate change as business risk, corporate climate politics, the role of justification and compromise, and managerial identity and emotional reactions to climate change. Written for researchers and graduate students, this book moves beyond descriptive and normative approaches to provide a sociologically and critically informed theory of corporate responses to climate change.
Download or read book The Interplay Between Climate Change and Human Rights written by Konstantinos Skaltsas and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Responsibility and Liability written by Eva Schulev-Steindl and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holding Change written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life’s inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working to create change, individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations. The majority of the book is sourced from brown’s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work, with additional wisdom from a selection of living Black feminist facilitators and mediators.
Download or read book Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law written by Elisa Morgera and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the impact of environmental law on private companies, especially multinationals? How are international organizations interacting with businesses regarding the environment? This text responds to these topical questions by identifying corporate accountability standards and their implementation.
Download or read book Corporate Accountability for Global Environmental Safeguards written by Sunklan Porwal and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate accountability for global environmental safeguards refers to the responsibility of businesses to mitigate their negative impact on the environment and take actions to ensure sustainable development. This includes the implementation of policies, procedures, and practices that reduce the environmental impact of their operations and products.Businesses have a significant impact on the environment through their use of natural resources, emissions, waste generation, and other activities. As such, there is a growing recognition of the need for corporations to be held accountable for their environmental impact, particularly in light of the growing concerns around climate change, loss of biodiversity, and other environmental issues.Corporate accountability for global environmental safeguards can take many forms, including: Environmental reporting: Companies can provide transparent and accurate reporting on their environmental impact, including their greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and waste generation.Environmental management systems: Companies can implement environmental management systems, such as ISO 14001, to ensure that their operations are conducted in an environmentally responsible manner.Sustainable supply chain management: Companies can work with their suppliers to ensure that their products and services are sourced in an environmentally responsible manner.Product design: Companies can incorporate environmental considerations into their product design process, such as using renewable materials or designing products that are easier to recycle.Stakeholder engagement: Companies can engage with stakeholders, such as local communities and environmental groups, to understand their concerns and incorporate their feedback into their environmental management practices.Overall, corporate accountability for global environmental safeguards is an important aspect of ensuring sustainable development and protecting the environment for future generations.
Download or read book Corporate Citizen written by Oonagh E. Fitzgerald and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Corporate Citizen explore the legal frameworks and standards of conduct for multinational corporations. In a globalized world governed by domestic and international law, these corporations can be everywhere and nowhere at once, reaping financial benefits and enjoying the protections of investor-state arbitration but rarely being held accountable for the economic, environmental, and human rights harms they may have caused. Given the far-reaching power and success of the transnational corporation, and the many legal tools allowing these companies to avoid liability, how can governments protect their citizens? Broad-ranging in perspective, colourful and thought-provoking, the chapters in Corporate Citizen make the case that because the success of corporate global citizenship risks undermining national and international democratic governance, the multinational corporation must be more closely scrutinized and controlled – in the service of humanity and the protection of the natural environment.
Download or read book Litigating the Climate Emergency written by César Rodríguez-Garavito and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the climate crisis intensifies and becomes acutely visible, promising responses have been developed by scientists, advocates, and scholars around the world. Mobilizations such as #FridaysforFuture and Extinction Rebellion are converging with Indigenous peoples' movements and other social justice movements to convey the urgency and the scale needed for climate action. Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, informed by developments in attribution science, establish more precise links between greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events, and human impacts. In the meantime, collaborations between scientists and journalists have drawn the broader public's attention to detailed information about the magnitude of planet-warming emissions associated with the activities of major fossil fuel companies"--
Download or read book The Use of Climate Litigation as a Corporate Accountability Tool written by Oli Svilecic and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loss and Damage from Climate Change written by Reinhard Mechler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and policy linked to this discourse and articulating its multiple concepts, principles and methods. Written by leading researchers and practitioners, it identifies practical and evidence-based policy options to inform the discourse and climate negotiations. With climate-related risks on the rise and impacts being felt around the globe has come the recognition that climate mitigation and adaptation may not be enough to manage the effects from anthropogenic climate change. This recognition led to the creation of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in 2013, a climate policy mechanism dedicated to dealing with climate-related effects in highly vulnerable countries that face severe constraints and limits to adaptation. Endorsed in 2015 by the Paris Agreement and effectively considered a third pillar of international climate policy, debate and research on Loss and Damage continues to gain enormous traction. Yet, concepts, methods and tools as well as directions for policy and implementation have remained contested and vague. Suitable for researchers, policy-advisors, practitioners and the interested public, the book furthermore: • discusses the political, legal, economic and institutional dimensions of the issue• highlights normative questions central to the discourse • provides a focus on climate risks and climate risk management. • presents salient case studies from around the world.
Download or read book Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law written by Elisa Morgera and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated second edition of Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law examines systematically all international sources of corporate accountability standards with specific reference to environmental protection, and elaborates on their theoretical and practical implications for international environmental law.
