Business and climate policy the potentials and pitfalls of private voluntary programs / [electronic resource] : edited by Karsten Ronit. - New York : United Nations University Press, c2012. - x, 265 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Climatic changes.
Voluntarism.


Electronic books.

HD30.255 / .B8697 2012eb

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