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23 - Corporate Compliance and Climate Change

from Part IV - Private Sector Initiatives to Promote Disaster Resilience and Recovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2022

Susan S. Kuo
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina School of Law
John Travis Marshall
Affiliation:
Georgia State University College of Law
Ryan Rowberry
Affiliation:
Georgia State University College of Law
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Summary

Climate change has dramatically increased the frequency and severity of disasters including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, droughts, and pandemics. In a globally connected economy, climate-change fueled disasters disrupt supply chains and upend markets, affecting corporations no matter where they are located. From a risk-management perspective, however, climate change is just another external threat to hedge against, no different in principle than the risk that interest rates might rise or that an economic downturn could reduce the demand for a corporation’s products or services. Thus, corporations have reason to address the problem of climate change, but only to the extent that corporations can thereby produce value for their shareholders. This chapter argues, to the contrary, that climate change should trigger a compliance response. Unlike risk management, a compliance-based approach would require corporations to internalize the problem of climate change and to give it priority over competing considerations.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy
Risk, Recovery, and Redevelopment
, pp. 378 - 386
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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