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Dark and Dirty Assets: Greening Climate-Driven Asset Partitioning

The imperative to mitigate climate change is leading even the largest polluters to start cleaning up their activities and green their strategies. When energy giants Shell, Total, and Eni sold...

14 June 2022

John Armour

Luca Enriques

Thom Wetzer

Private Companies in the Net-Zero Transition and Policy Implications for the EU and the UK

Climate change is undeniably one of the most pressing issues of our time. Alarm bells have become too loud to simply ignore, spurring increasing action on the part of policymakers...

24 May 2022

Wolf-Georg Ringe

Alperen Afşin Gözlügöl

Central Banks and Climate Change: Is It a Problem of Fit, Opportunity, Suitability, or All of the Above?

Climate change is humanity’s defining challenge for the 21st century, but central banks have for a long time been absent from the picture. No longer. The Network for the Greening...

5 May 2022

David Ramos Muñoz

Antonio Cabrales Goitia

Ángel Sánchez

Dual Class Shares in the Age of Common Ownership

Mark Zuckerberg has virtually all his personal wealth invested in Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook). His incentives as controller of Meta are thus clear: maximize firm value and private benefits of...

The Challenges of Good Corporate Citizenship—Keynote Speech by Andrea Enria

Søren Kierkegaard said that ‘life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards’. Looking back, there were ominous signs that this unthinkable war of aggression would break...

7 April 2022

Andrea Enria

The Audit Committee Frontier—Addressing Climate Change

The announcement of a new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is a major milestone in global efforts to set businesses on the path to net-zero. Audit committees have a critical...

Modernizing ESG Disclosure

In November 2021, the IFRS Foundation announced prototype global corporate reporting standards for climate and sustainability disclosures, and created the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to oversee their...

28 January 2022

Virginia E Harper Ho

Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?

Climate change is one of today’s most salient policy challenges. Under the Paris Agreement, 195 governments agreed to limit temperature increases to well below 2, preferably 1.5, degrees centigrade relative...

Judicial Remedies for Climate Change: Less May be More

The struggle to mitigate the effects of climate change will be the defining issue of this century. The extensive amount of climate change litigation already aimed at governments...

15 December 2021

Kent Roach

Book Publication—Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Economy

As global leaders assemble in Glasgow at COP26 to accelerate action towards fighting climate change, it is widely recognised that the role of business in this endeavour is central. Scientific...

9 November 2021

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Dark and Dirty Assets: Greening Climate-Driven Asset Partitioning

Private Companies in the Net-Zero Transition and Policy Implications for the EU and the UK

Central Banks and Climate Change: Is It a Problem of Fit, Opportunity, Suitability, or All of the Above?

Dual Class Shares in the Age of Common Ownership

The Challenges of Good Corporate Citizenship—Keynote Speech by Andrea Enria

The Audit Committee Frontier—Addressing Climate Change

Modernizing ESG Disclosure

Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?

Judicial Remedies for Climate Change: Less May be More

Book Publication—Business Law and the Transition to a Net Zero Economy

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