Corporations at Climate Crossroads
Subtitle
Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action
From the publisher's description: How corporations and governance can act together effectively in the urgent global call for climate action. With climate risks growing, climate action facing political headwinds in many countries, and international cooperation increasingly challenged, Lily Hsueh’s "Corporations at Climate Crossroads" illuminates how and under what conditions the world’s largest corporations have taken proactive action on climate change during the years leading up to and after the Paris Agreement.
Bio
Lily Hsueh is associate professor of economics and public policy at Arizona State University. Previously a visiting scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, her work has been featured in major news outlets, including the Financial Times, Fortune, and PBS NewsHour. She was a 2020–21 American Fellow of the American Association of University Women.
Praise for this book
"Corporations at Climate Crossroads offers a nuanced analysis of corporate response to the climate challenge. It shows how factors internal to the firm in conjunction with its external environment shape its climate behaviors. Highly recommend.
Aseem Prakash Professor of Political Science and Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
"What drives corporate behavior on climate change? Employing empirical evidence and case studies, Lily Hsueh’s masterful, engaging, and timely book explains how policy and managerial impetus influence climate actions by the private sector.
Edward B. Barbier University Distinguished Professor of Economics, Colorado State University; author of "Economics for a Fragile Planet"
