Download or read book Sustainability Clauses in International Business Contracts written by Kateřina Peterková Mitkidis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development is a globally recognized goal. However, governments are failing to reach agreement on how this should be achieved. Private actors that are under stakeholders' pressure try to fill this regulatory gap by developing various types of transnational private regulation. However, transnational private regulation suffers from weak legitimacy, questionable effectiveness, and lack of credible enforcement. This book suggests that supply chain contracting may offer an alternative regulation that could lead away from the current regulatory impasse, or at least be one of the missing pieces in the puzzle. Despite the traditionally primary goal of business - to make a profit - companies are, under the imperative of corporate social responsibility (CSR), engaging in activities pursuing public goals in the social and environmental spheres. The book examines one of the tools developed to implement CSR into the business operations: social and environmental clauses in international supply chain contracts ('sustainability contractual clauses, ' SCCs). Since there is a lack of literature and regulation on this topic, companies use SCCs without proper knowledge or guidance on why and how this should be done, and on what legal consequences this may have. The book fills this gap by discussing the use of the legal instrument of contract to pursue social and environmental goals; analyzing the legal framework of sustainability contractual clauses; examining what legal effects SCCs may have; and evaluating the contribution of this activity in terms of achieving sustainable development objectives. The aim is to explore both the potential and the limitations of contractual governance in achieving global sustainability and thus contribute to the current discussion on the development of new regulatory and governance designs in this area. (Series: Dovenschmidt Monographs - Vol. 3) [Subject: International Law, Business Law, Economic Law, Trade Law, Contract Law, Environmental Law
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Download or read book Sustainability Clauses in International Supply Chain Contracts written by Katerina Peterkova Mitkidis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current society is not successful in mitigation of global social and environmental challenges. States lack legal tools, and sometimes also the will, to secure social and environmental interests transnationally and the existing soft and private regulation is criticized for its weak legitimacy, effectiveness and enforcement. Regardless of this regulatory gap, companies who do not comply with the globally accepted sustainability standards run reputational risks that can lead to long-term negative economic effects. Moreover, stakeholders expect companies not only to follow the standards themselves but also to do business exclusively with socially responsible partners. Unawareness, either intentional or negligent, of unethical behaviour within a company's supply chain may lead to an assumption that the company is complicit in such a conduct. The paper discusses a hypothesis that sustainability contractual clauses (SCCs) in international supply chain agreements may help to overcome the regulatory gap in relation to global sustainability while concurrently protect companies against potential social, economic and legal risks threatening in connection to unethical behaviour of their suppliers. As parts of enforceable business contracts, SCCs are considered to overcome the heavily criticized softness of other CSR regulation and, therefore, to be more successful in fostering ethical behaviour of suppliers who are legally independent but often in economic and business terms dependent on the sourcing companies. However, this hardening function is questionable face-to-face the lack of case law or another proof of SCCs' formal enforcement. This article aims to shed a light on the question whether SCCs can be the efficient regulatory solution for global challenges we are looking for or whether they are yet another corporate social responsibility tool 'without teeth'. The central questions are: why SCCs are presumed to be effective regulatory means for global sustainability, how these clauses are seen through the lenses of international contract law and whether they can actually contribute to a positive change in suppliers' social and environmental performance. Based on the analysis of SCCs' features and the underlying regulatory framework, the author concludes that while SCCs would not be enforceable by courts in most cases, they can still be successful in regulating global sustainability. Their positive effects on suppliers' behaviour will depend on how companies draft and use such clauses. It is suggested that the full potential of private contracting could be triggered by adequate governmental regulation.
Download or read book The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once seen as aspirational and relatively innocuous, 'sustainability' or 'sustainable development' provisions are now changing the face of international trade agreements. The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements gathers fundamental, first-hand analyses of these novel commitments across dozens of agreements, considering their legal, political, and economic aspects. Drawing on perspectives from different parts of the world and engaging experts in the law and practice of sustainability provisions, this volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the latest developments and innovations in international trade agreements. It also evaluates the development challenges that sustainability requirements pose for countries with limited resources and capacity, for whom lower labour and environmental regulatory costs have been a competitive asset. The present volume explores the intersectional aspects of sustainability - such as gender equality, biodiversity, animal welfare, and Indigenous rights - in addition to the more traditional dimensions of sustainability, namely economic development, environmental conservation, and improvement of labour standards. There is little doubt that a sustainability revolution in global production patterns is needed. Considering the details of its operation - how it can come into being, who will bear the increased production costs, and how decisions on difficult trade-offs will be made - reveals the immense challenges involved in developing a new international law for sustainable trade. Read together, the chapters in this volume outline the contours this emerging legal framework, examine its practical operation, and offer important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution in international trade agreements.
Download or read book The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements written by Geraldo Vidigal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2024-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together theory and practice, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive assessment of sustainable development provisions in international trade agreements. The volume offers important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution.
Download or read book Quo vadis Commercial Contract written by Mads Andenas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume combines chapters derived from papers presented at the 4th and 5th Annual Conferences on the Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform. This ongoing research project brings together scholars from all over the world at an annual international conference in London. The book focusses on technology in commercial contract law as well as on sustainability in commercial contracts. The latter theme was inspired by the United Nations' climate conference that was to take place in Glasgow in the United Kingdom that same year. The book combines topical current issues in commercial contract law and practice organized in three parts. The first part contains contributions to the area of law and technology. The second part of the book expands on aspects of sustainability understood as environmental reasonableness in the context of commercial contracts. The third part includes several chapters on the topics of supervening events and contractual ethics. This book is therefore part of a coherent line of contributions to the furthering of modern contract theory. The choice of topics is closely following current issues of legal policy and contract practice.
Download or read book The General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement written by Rodrigues Junior Rodrigues Jr. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the policy room made available by the general exception clauses of the TRIPS Agreement.
Download or read book Sustainable Tourism Contracts written by Sara Landini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the various sustainability issues that the tourism industry has faced over time like the trend from over-tourism to under-tourism or from tourism in increasingly distant destinations to a new local tourism with new needs. It also highlights how contracts, both between businesses and those with consumers, can represent tools for the financial, ecological and social sustainability of the tourism industry.
Download or read book Drafting International Contracts written by Marcel Fontaine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drafting International Contracts" is an essential resource for anyone working in international business. It features the latest trends, fostering an understanding of how international contracts are drafted in practice.
Download or read book Drafting International Contracts written by Marcel Fontaine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drafting International Contracts is an essential resource for anyone working in international business. It features the latest trends, fostering an understanding of how international contracts are drafted in practice.
Download or read book Energy Law and the Sustainable Company written by Patricia Park and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company? There is substantial debate over why CEOs, senior management and Boards of Directors make the wrong decisions by not asking the right questions, with the result that not only is the company itself damaged, but all of the stakeholders find themselves at a detriment. Focusing on innovation, technology transfer and the use of intangible assets, Energy Law and the Sustainable Company features case studies from the oil and gas sector, to illustrate how to develop a sustainable business. Considering corporate social responsibility from the perspective of international and national law, the book demonstrates how companies can be both profitable and ethical using the influences of psychology to encourage senior decision makers to make the right decisions. It was revealed that reputation was the main principle influencing decision-making. The book also discusses how companies have reported on their sustainability strategy and considers how technology transfer and intangible assets may play a part in addressing global sustainability. This book should be invaluable reading to students and scholars of Sustainable Business, Business Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental and Energy Law as well as Environmental and Energy Management.
Download or read book Law and Responsible Supply Chain Management written by Vibe Ulfbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Social Responsibility has for long been on the agenda in the business world and recently, it has also become a political agenda in the European Union. Focusing on international supply chains and their control based on studies of law in several European jurisdictions, this book aims to advance the discussion on the application and enforcement of CSR. Drawing parallels to US and Canadian law, the book explores to what extent private law tools can be used as an enforcement device and it ultimately asks if what we are witnessing is the formation of a new area of law, employing the interplay of contract and tort – a law of "production liability", as a corollary of the concept of "product liability".
Download or read book International Trade Investment and the Sustainable Development Goals written by Cosimo Beverelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary investigation of how economic globalization can help achieve the UN's 2030 Agenda, exploring trade-offs among the Goals.
Download or read book Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment written by Peter S. Brandon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty years.
Download or read book Rules of the Game for Sustainable Business written by David Frydlinger and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That all companies must be part of the sustainability transition is no longer just good advice but a necessity since the world is in an unsustainable state, both environmentally and socially. The legal, contractual and moral rules of the games for conducting business are rapidly changing for all companies involved in business or finance related to the European Union. This crucially important book explains the changing landscape and provides a guide for companies on how to transform into more sustainable businesses while at the same time complying with the laws adopted as part of the EU green deal. In this book, the author addresses such issues and topics as the following: holistic framework to understand environmental and social sustainability and its relevance for business; overview of the entire field of EU sustainability law, from human rights treaties to sustainability regulations to sustainable contracts; the connection between sustainability, economics and morality; sustainable finance and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, EU Taxonomy and Green Bonds Regulation; sustainable business and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence Directives; the European Sustainability Reporting Standards; sustainability and contracts; and sustainable supply chains. This book is an in-depth introduction to EU sustainability law and can be read as an instruction manual for sustainable business in general. It is an important guide for lawyers, business leaders, sustainability officers, auditors, and advisors. It provides a necessary basic understanding of what is required to transform today’s business into a sustainable business and thus contribute to the future of humanity on Earth.
Download or read book Sustainability and Management written by Kıymet Çalıyurt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the 1987 Brundtland Report, sustainable development has become key to the management systems within businesses, and a means by which companies can increase their long-term value. Being a ‘sustainable company’ increasingly means ‘staying alive in business’ and has become a necessity for all kinds of enterprises, from the micro-sized to global corporations. In more recent years, many companies, and indeed governments, have looked at sustainability as a means to combat the multiple challenges of environmental accidents, global warming, resource depletion, energy, poverty and pollution. However, being sustainable or maintaining sustainability is not an easy task for a company’s management function. It needs continuous support and engagement from the board, the executive management, staff and other stakeholders alike. Additionally, it brings extra costs to the company in terms of hiring trained staff, organising continuous training in the company, publishing sustainability reports and subscribing to a rating system. Sustainability must be nourished by a company’s board as well as by all of its departments, such as accounting, marketing and human resources. By the same token, it is not enough for a company simply to declare itself a ‘sustainable business’ or rely on past measures and reputation; sustainability is an ongoing activity and one which has to be proved by periodically disclosing sustainability reports, according to international rating systems. In Sustainability and Management: An International Perspective, Kıymet Çalıyurt and Ülkü Yüksel bring together international authors from a variety of specialisations to discuss the development, aspects, problems, roadmap, trends and disclosure systems for sustainability in management. The result is a lively, insightful exposition of the field.
