Historically, the debate on climate change governance has been centered around a global treaty on carbon pricing, where burdens and benefits were to be shared according to standards of distributive justice. Recently, three alternative concepts have emerged in this discourse: polycentric climate...

In the last decades, NGOs have become an important participant in the work of political organizations (e.g., national authorities, the EU or the UN). This development brings many opportunities and also some challenges, including discourse failure which is one of the topics discussed in this...

The petroleum industry is confronted with severe deficits in the institutional framework for global business. In order to fill the gap, companies react with voluntary commitments to ecological, social and governance standards. This study analyses a broad variety of Best Practice projects in...