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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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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'I gladly endorse Lisa Benjamin's Companies and Change: Theory and Law in the United Kingdom. Lisa's grasp of the science of climate change and the intertwined legal complexity of corporate governance is formidable. This volume is a vital tool allowing policy makers to understand the structures of companies and how the economic and legal structures of companies can be reformed, in domestic jurisdictions and globally. This monograph is pellucid, it challenges the dominant discourse of profit maximisation in companies and Multinational Enterprises leading to the climate emergency. The books advocates a range of solutions including different models for business and involving financiers to invest their capital into renewable technology. The book is passionate and simultaneously academically rigorous. A wonderful piece of writing.' Janet Dine, Professor of International Economic Development Law, Queen Mary University of London
