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Sec Opens The Door For Climate Change-Related Shareholder Proposals And Disclosure Requirements, With Potential New Liabilites For Public Companies, Matthew P. Allen, Eric M. Jamison, Mark J. Bennett
Sec Opens The Door For Climate Change-Related Shareholder Proposals And Disclosure Requirements, With Potential New Liabilites For Public Companies, Matthew P. Allen, Eric M. Jamison, Mark J. Bennett
Eric Jamison
The 2009 proxy season saw a record number of shareholder resolutions related to climate change that were directed at a range of industries, including automotive, finance, building, oil, and power generation. Investors are increasingly seeking information from publicly held companies regarding their relative risk position to climate change. Shareholder resolutions seek information about greenhouse gas emissions, energy usage, and go as far as seeking emissions reduction targets. Shareholders are even requesting that financial institutions and banks adopt resolutions limiting or eliminating their lending and investment relationships with companies that present environmental risk. Historically, companies were generally entitled to exclude environmental …
The Copenhagen Accord And The Future Of The International Climate Change Regime, Francesco Sindico
The Copenhagen Accord And The Future Of The International Climate Change Regime, Francesco Sindico
Francesco Sindico
This paper analyses the environmental integrity, the nature and the political relevance of the Copenhagen Accord. According to the first two parameters, the Copenhagen Accord is not satisfactory. From a political point of view the conclusion is slightly different, albeit not positive. This paper concludes arguing that after the Copenhagen Conference the future of the international climate change legal regime is likely to be more fragmented, the Accord being one further piece of the global carbon puzzle.
China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods. China and the United States need to respond effectively to both economic and climate crises and can do so in part by cooperating on environmentally sound technology that transforms the global use of energy.
Collaborative Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Collaborative Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
This article analyzes the importance of increasing civil society actor access to and influence in international legal and policy negotiations, drawing from academic scholarship on governance, conservation and environmental sustainability, natural resource management, observations of civil society actors, and the authors’ experiences as participants in international environmental negotiations.
Hot Points Special Edition Climate Change, Eric Jamison
Hot Points Special Edition Climate Change, Eric Jamison
Eric Jamison
Hot Points Special Edition Climate Change focuses on legal developments related to the emerging trends in climate law and policy.