Climate change is widely recognised as one of society's most profound challenges. In facing that challenge, the role of businesses is central. Corporations have a crucial role to play in mitigating climate change by reducing their net emissions and by driving the innovation and adaptation that are necessary to bring about a net zero economy. This volume brings together leading thinkers to evaluate the contribution that business law has made, and could make, to help drive such change.
The contributions are organized under 4 broad themes:
· Climate Change Disclosures and Net Zero Commitments
· Climate Change: Exit or Voice
· Climate Change in the Boardroom
· Climate Change in the Courtroom
This book brings together leading thinkers to evaluate the contribution that business law has made, and could make, to help challenge climate change.
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This book brings together leading thinkers to evaluate the contribution that business law has made, and could make, to help challenge climate change.
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Part A Climate Change Disclosures and Net Zero Commitments |
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Chapter 1 Corporate Climate: A Machine Learning Assessment of Climate Risk Disclosures |
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Chapter 2 The Sprawling Problem of Financial Greenwashing |
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Chapter 3 Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: Beyond Greenwashing |
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Chapter 4 Can and should Corporations Commit to a Voluntary Carbon Tax? |
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Chapter 5 EU vs Greenwashing: The Birth Pangs of Transparency, Comparability, Cooperation and Leadership |
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Part B Climate Change: Exit or Voice? |
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Chapter 7 Do Responsible Investors Invest Responsibly? |
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Chapter 8 Corporate Governance, the Depth of Altruism and the Polyphony of Voice |
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Chapter 9 Say No to Climate Change, Say Yes to `Say on Climate' |
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Part C Climate Change in the Boardroom |
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Chapter 10 Green Boardrooms? |
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Chapter 11 Sustainabiliry and Corporate Stakeholders |
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Chapter 12 UK directors' duties in a changing climate and the net zero transition |
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Chapter 13 Climate change, directors' duties, controlling shareholders, and state-owned enterprises |
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Chapter 14 Director's Duties and Climate Change Risk - Standard of Care, Foreseeability and Enforceability |
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Part D Climate Change in the Courtroom |
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Chapter 15 The Climate Judges |
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Chapter 16 The German Constitutional Court's KSG Judgment: Emphasising the Time Dimension of the Path to Carbon Neutrality |
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Chapter 17 Milieudefensie v Shell: Do oil corporations hold a duty to mitigate climate change? |
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Andreas Engert is Professor of Law at Free University of Berlin, Germany. Luca Enriques is Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford, UK. Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Hamburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, UK. Umakanth Varottilis Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. Thom Wetzer is Associate Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford, UK.
