Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change / edited by Elbert de Jong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table Of Contents -- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Greenhouse gas emissions in global value chains: governance, regulation and liability -- 3. Corporate actors and climate harms: the role of human rights law -- 4. Evolving business responsibilities for climate-related harms under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and OECD MNE Guidelines -- 5. Contracting for climate change in Global Value Chains -- 6. The potential of contractual assurances to advance supply chain due diligence -- 7. Consumers’ contribution to climate change mitigation and their empowerment through EU law -- 8. From climate risk to climate opportunity: a functional framework for pension fund investment governance -- 9. Liability for climate change impacts: the role of climate attribution science -- 10. Strict liability for climate harm: the case of Norway -- 11. Liability of non-state actors for scope 3 emissions -- 12. The role of the courts in private climate change litigation -- 13. The economics of climate damage assessment in courts -- 14. Compensation funds for climate change - potential developments from a comparative law perspective -- Index

As litigation rises against corporations and their climate change policies, this timely book examines their accountability and liability. It illustrates the potential and limitations of legal doctrines across human rights law, soft law, contract law, consumer law and non-contractual liability law for holding corporations responsible for climate change.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.