Private Governance
ELI 2020 Corporate Forum: Reimagining Supply Chains
The coronavirus pandemic, the push for racial justice, and continued efforts to mitigate climate change have emerged as key challenges for corporations. At the center of this trifecta of change are supply chains; onequarter of the...
Under the Radar: A Coherent System of Climate Governance, Driven by Business
This Article argues that growing private efforts to address climate change collectively take on the attributes and functions of a governance system that could be vital to societal decarbonization. Instead of evaluating specific...
Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change
When the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, 100 private corporations reaffirmed their commitment to fighting climate change. While governments are often tasked with facing climate change, many major private...
The Corporate Role in the Environmental Protection Enterprise
With real-time diagnostics, cutting-edge compliance management systems, and an underlying focus on sustainability as a good economic and reputational practice in many industry sectors, environmental compliance is increasingly self-...
Marine Stewardship Council: A Case Study in Private Environmental Standard-Setting
This Comment will examine key features of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), one of the main private environmental standard-setting organizations, and describe MSC’s standard-setting process, the status of MSC’s review of its...
Interviews With Private Governance Experts
Corporations and other nongovernmental entities now regularly work to develop voluntary agreements, standards, and other practices aimed at fostering sustainability and reducing environmental impacts. This growth in “private governance...
A Summit on Private Environmental Governance: Facing the Challenges of Voluntary Standards, Supply Chains, and Green Marketing
On June 10, 2013, ELI, the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, and the Council of Better Business Bureaus cosponsored a conference to provide an overview and to initiate a dialogue about the legal issues taking shape amidst the growing...
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