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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452705803321

Titolo

Business and climate policy [[electronic resource] ] : the potentials and pitfalls of private voluntary programs / / edited by Karsten Ronit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : United Nations University Press, c2012

ISBN

92-808-7183-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RonitKarsten

Disciplina

363.738/745765

Soggetti

Business enterprises - Environmental aspects

Environmental policy

Climatic changes

Voluntarism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tables and figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Marrying climate policy and private voluntary programs / Karsten Ronit -- Cross-sectoral and multi-sectoral programs -- Private voluntary programs in environmental governance : climate change and the financial sector / Jennifer Clapp and Jason Thistlethwaite -- Private voluntary programs on climate change : US federal government as the sponsoring actor / Lily Hsueh and Aseem Prakash -- Sectors -- The role of private voluntary climate programs affecting forests : assessing their direct and intersecting effects / Laura Bozzi, Benjamin Cashore, Kelly Levin, and Constance McDermott -- Emerging private voluntary programs and climate change : the blind spots of the agrifood sector / Doris Fuchs and Frederike Boll -- Climate change, private voluntary programs and the automobile industry / Tony Porter -- Conclusions -- Private voluntary programs in climate policy : potentials and pitfalls / Karsten Ronit -- Index.