You Are Too Soft!: What Can Corporate Social Responsibility Do For Climate Change? (original) (raw)

2011, Minn. JL Sci. & Tech.

In the run-up to the global climate summit in Copenhagen (COP-15), 1 environmentalists, scientists, and politicians referred to it as a historical event. As COP-15 drew near, climate change activists and United Nations (UN) officials had high hopes that December 2009 would be a watershed moment for creating a new carbon-restricted global economy for decades to come. Furthermore, following the result of the 2008 American presidential elections, many in the international community felt that the path was clear to finally include the United States in the agreement that would replace the Kyoto Protocol, 2 and that developing nations-among them China and India-would also take on some binding and enforceable restrictions on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The European Parliament even had lofty expectations that an