Cases involving climate change have been litigated in the courts for some time, but new directions and trends have started to emerge. While the majority of climate litigation has occurred in the United States and other developed countries, cases in the Global South are growing both in terms of...

Projections for climate change extend decades into the future, and usually to the end of this century due to the long-lived nature of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Predominant normative frameworks for corporate governance are primarily short-term in nature, creating a temporal dissonance within the...

Transnational carbon major companies are responsible for over 30% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions and exert tremendous influence over future global climate trajectories. Yet, they are not governed through top-down, stringent emissions limits, but are instead regulated largely by...

The Paris Rulebook – nearly complete, but with the “markets” text tied to article 6 of the Paris Agreement unadopted after nearly three years – invites comparison with a similar effort under the Kyoto Protocol, the Marrakesh Accords. An in-depth analysis of the negotiating history as...

Companies lie at the heart of the climate crisis and are both culpable for, and vulnerable to, its impacts. Rising social and investor concern about the escalating risks of climate change are changing public and investor expectations of businesses and, as a result, corporate approaches to...