Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law

Elisa Morgera is Professor of Global Environmental Law and Co-Director of Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. She specializes in international, European and comparative environmental law, and has published widely on biodiversity, environmental governance, corporate environmental accountability, and the EU external environmental policy. Elisa was a former officer of the UN Development Programme and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Since 2012 she has conducted a series of consultancies for the FAO and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to support the development of new international standards on responsible business conduct in the agricultural sector.

• Part I: Preliminary Questions 1: The Need for Corporate Environmental Accountability 2: History and Definitions 3: The Shortcomings of Traditional Legal Solutions Part II: Emerging International Standards of Corporate Environmental Accountability 4: Primary Rules 5: The UN and the OECD: Convergent Paths 6: A Contribution of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies? 7: Standard-setting by International Financial Institutions 8: Corporate Accountability Standards in International Environmental Law Part III: Tools for Compliance with Standards of Corporate Environmental Accountability 9: Tools for Compliance 10: International Human Rights and Environmental Treaty Bodies 11: International Financial Institutions 12: International Corporate Accountability Implementation Mechanisms

Review from previous edition The scholarship and methodological rigor displayed in the book, make it of considerable value to a variety of audiences: governmental and nongovernmental; academic and activist; workers, communities and consumers; policy-makers, implementing bureaucrats and monitoring officials; and national, regional and international institutions of development, finance and trade.