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these reforms is through state law fiduciary duties. My article demonstrates how state courts have started to enforce the … governance mandates under the reforms through fiduciary duties. Specifically, in my article I examine the watershed Disney case … directors with the standard of review that courts apply in determining liability. My article ultimately submits that by more …
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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...
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‘…the possibility of damages for those whose interests Urgenda represents, including current and future generations of Dutch nationals, is so great and concrete that given its duty of care, the state must make an adequate contribution, greater than its current contribution, to prevent...
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Several U.S. states have attempted to use of legal liability imposed on greenhouse gas emitters as a public policy … for climate change liability: as a source of compensation, as a direct influence on greenhouse gas concentrations, and as … liability may be that the threat of liability improves the chances that climate change policies will use more efficient, revenue …
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A review of climate change regulation reveals three historical ages: the age of responsibility, the age of cost-effectiveness, and the age of litigation. The age of responsibility refers to the “common but differentiated responsibility” (CBDR) principle characterized by political...
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