TY - BOOK AU - Benjamin,Lisa TI - Companies and climate change: theory and law in the United Kingdom T2 - Cambridge studies on environment, energy, and natural resources governance SN - 9781108689243 (ebook) AV - KD1989 .B46 2021 U1 - 344.4104/633 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Climatic changes KW - Law and legislation KW - Great Britain KW - Liability for environmental damages KW - Corporation law KW - Social responsibility of business KW - Corporations KW - Environmental aspects KW - Industrial management KW - Government policy KW - European Union countries KW - Environmental policy N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021); Theorising the company in the context of climate change -- English company law and climate change -- International and transnational climate change law and policies -- Domestic climate and energy regulation -- Companies, human rights, and climate litigation -- Fiscal barriers and incentives to corporate climate action N2 - Companies lie at the heart of the climate crisis and are both culpable for, and vulnerable to, its impacts. Rising social and investor concern about the escalating risks of climate change are changing public and investor expectations of businesses and, as a result, corporate approaches to climate change. Dominant corporate norms that put shareholders (and their wealth maximization) at the heart of company law are viewed by many as outdated and in need of reform. Companies and Climate Change analyzes these developments by assessing the regulation and pressures that impact energy companies in the UK, with lessons that apply worldwide. In this work, Lisa Benjamin shows how the Paris Agreement, climate and energy law in the EU and the UK, and transnational human rights and climate litigation, are regulatory and normative developments that illustrate how company law can and should act as a bridge to progressive corporate climate action UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108689243 ER -