Overview
- Provides a novel assessment of corporate sector as climate actor
- Explores why German, Indian, and US finance, auto & energy corporations increased climate action in 2010s.
- Argues that corporate climate action filled a state leadership vacuum
Part of the book series: Environmental Politics and Theory (EPT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the origins and significance of the corporate climate action phenomenon, which has attracted increased attention in recent years. It examines how and why, during the 2010s, American, German, and Indian corporations spanning finance, technology, automotive, and energy-intensive industries adopted certain climate practices and converged around the idea that the private sector has a vital role to play in addressing climate change and advancing a low-carbon future. It also considers how policy developments that states widely understood as watersheds, including the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, simply confirmed what the private sector had long believed: that states lacked answers about how to achieve concerted, ambitious, and effective climate action. It was in this context, amid diminishing expectations for robust state climate action, that select corporations sought to fill a perceived leadership vacuum in an issue area poised to shape future global trends. Providing a novel assessment of the corporate sector as a climate actor, this book evaluates how the shift in the center of gravity in the climate change issue area away from national governments and toward other players may influence world order and impact an international security landscape increasingly defined by non-military challenges.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Charlotte Hulme is Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Deputy-Director of the Johnson Grand Strategy Program at the United States Military Academy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order
Authors: Charlotte Hulme
Series Title: Environmental Politics and Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34115-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34114-4Published: 26 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34117-5Due: 26 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34115-1Published: 25 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-670X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 259
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, Environmental Policy