Companies and Climate Change

Theory and Law in the United Kingdom

AvLisa Benjamin

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Companies lie at the heart of the climate crisis and are both culpable for, and vulnerable to, its impacts. Rising social and investor concern about the escalating risks of climate change are changing public and investor expectations of businesses and, as a result, corporate approaches to climate change. Dominant corporate norms that put shareholders (and their wealth maximization) at the heart of company law are viewed by many as outdated and in need of reform. Companies and Climate Change analyzes these developments by assessing the regulation and pressures that impact energy companies in the UK, with lessons that apply worldwide. In this work, Lisa Benjamin shows how the Paris Agreement, climate and energy law in the EU and the UK, and transnational human rights and climate litigation, are regulatory and normative developments that illustrate how company law can and should act as a bridge to progressive corporate climate action.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance
Antal sidor:249
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108723473

Utforska kategorier

Bolagsrätt inom Juridik
Affärsförhandlingar inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Miljörätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Lisa Benjamin is Assistant Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. Professor Benjamin was a corporate and commercial lawyer in London for seven years before teaching international environmental and company law at the University of The Bahamas. She became an advisor to the Government of The Bahamas on climate change, including representing the country at the UNFCCC negotiations and as part of the Paris Agreement negotiations. She is currently a member of the UNFCCC Compliance Committee (Facilitative Branch) which assesses country reports under the Kyoto Protocol.

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'This fascinating and timely book provides a chilling illustration of how tightly intertwined the global climate emergency is with the core dynamics of corporate governance and shareholder capitalism. It highlights how the traditionally autonomous fields of corporate law, environmental regulation and human rights can no longer safely be confined to their own distinct discursive spaces. As lawyers, scholars, and policymakers in these fields we must all become as multi-faceted in our work as Dr Lisa Benjamin is. No less than the very future of our planet depends on it.' Marc Moore, Professor of Corporate/Financial Law, UCL Faculty of Laws, University College London

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing the Company in the Context of Climate Change; 3. English Company Law and Climate Change; 4. International and Transnational Climate Change Law and Policies; 5. Domestic Climate and Energy Regulation; 6. Companies, Human Rights and Climate Litigation; 7. Fiscal Barriers and Incentives to Corporate Climate Action; 8. Conclusion.

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