Amy Janzwood and Christian Elliott: Public Interventions and Private Governance Responses in Corporate Carbon Risk Disclosure
CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has facilitated nearly 10,000 corporate climate risk disclosures in its twenty years of operation. Despite an influx of public authority (government-led initiatives and rules) that threatens to compete with CDP, the private governor has instead expanded its “governance space,” drawing in even greater numbers of disclosures to its platform. […]
Susan Park, Teresa Kramarz, and Craig Johnson: Governance Gaps and Accountability Traps in the Global Shift to Renewable Energy
The global uptake of renewable technology is both dramatic and insufficient to achieve a 2-degree world by 2050. Urgently decarbonizing energy use and systems by shifting to renewables relies on intensifying global value chains, beginning with the extraction of minerals and metals primarily from developing countries. Largely devoid of intergovernmental oversight, this paper examines how […]
Teresa Kramarz: Environmental Shocks and Responses – A Typology of Vulnerability Profiles
There is widespread recognition that environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor in developing countries, yet certain kinds of violence also strip white, middle class communities in industrialized countries of vital resources to respond. Social vulnerability as a mutually constitutive relationship between distinct types of shocks and capacities to respond requires further research. I explore how […]
Christopher Campbell-Duruflé: A Substance-Oriented Approach to State Accountability for Parties’ Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Changes
Christopher Campbell-Duruflé, an SJD Candidate at the University of Toronto, presented his research assessing the accountability of the Paris Agreement, and how these interactions influence the treaty Parties. The research highlights three arguments: how greater clarity is needed regarding the notion of state accountability for treaty implementation actions, how a substance-oriented approach to assessing […]
Michaela Pederson-Macnab: The Pitfalls of Success – Scaling Pressures for Voluntary Carbon Registries
In cases where governments are unable or unwilling to engage the private sector to reduce their emissions, non-governmental actors have stepped in to fill this governance gap. While the global environmental governance literature has produced a breadth of studies focused explaining the emergence of these actors, we still know relatively little about the internal dynamics […]