Lisa Benjamin

Companies and Climate Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book can help students, scholars and practitioners identify the overlaps and tensions between company and environmental law. Connecting diverse areas such as international environmental law, climate and energy law, human rights law, and investor action, Benjamin argues that company law can be a bridge to corporate climate action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484671
• ISBN-10: 1108484670
• Artikelnr.: 60325917

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.