Business and climate policy : the potentials and pitfalls of private voluntary programs /

Climate change has become one of the most important and challenging global policy fields. Attention has primarily focused on the successes and failures of states and intergovernmental organisations but many more actors are involved and contribute solutions. The contributions to this book assess the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ronit, Karsten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : United Nations University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Climatic changes.
Voluntarism.
Entreprises > Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale.
Climat > Changements.
environmental policy.
climate change.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects
Climatic changes
Environmental policy
Voluntarism
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tables and figures
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Marrying climate policy and private voluntary programs / Karsten Ronit
  • Cross-sectoral and multi-sectoral programs
  • Private voluntary programs in environmental governance : climate change and the financial sector / Jennifer Clapp and Jason Thistlethwaite
  • Private voluntary programs on climate change : US federal government as the sponsoring actor / Lily Hsueh and Aseem Prakash
  • Sectors
  • The role of private voluntary climate programs affecting forests : assessing their direct and intersecting effects / Laura Bozzi, Benjamin Cashore, Kelly Levin, and Constance McDermott
  • Emerging private voluntary programs and climate change : the blind spots of the agrifood sector / Doris Fuchs and Frederike Boll
  • Climate change, private voluntary programs and the automobile industry / Tony Porter
  • Conclusions
  • Private voluntary programs in climate policy : potentials and pitfalls / Karsten Ronit
  • Index.

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