Multinational companies are increasingly under pressure to integrate decarbonisation into their business models as a sign of climate leadership and as a strategy for their long-term value. Institutional investors play a key role in this, both directly, by influencing the adoption of...

Two linked topics concerning environmental issues at the WTO and their implications for MNEs are considered – namely, international business in the environmental goods and services sector, and the relationship of the WTO to the emerging climate change regime, particularly the Kyoto Protocol....

Climate change shatters the idea that jurisdictional borders and doctrinal debates about the scope of the ‘legal' are the sole tensions with which a concept of transnational law must contend. Climate change exposes a further fault line underlying legal thought and practice – the problematic,...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) may play a key role in the global effort to shift towards a low-carbon economy. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) can contribute in several important ways to climate change mitigation, by providing emission-saving technologies, financial resources and managerial...

An array of public, private and hybrid mechanisms of climate change governance has developed alongside the public international law framework. This diffusion of climate governance necessitates a reconceptualization of the global response to climate change. This paper applies the methodological...