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Sub-theme 19:

Climate Change: Challenging Business, Transforming Politics

 

Convenors:

Bettina Wittneben
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (The Netherlands)
bwittneben@rsm.nl

Chukwumerije Okereke
University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK)
c.okereke@uea.ac.uk

Bobby Banerjee
University of Western Sydney (Australia)
b.banerjee@uws.edu.au


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Introduction

Chair: Bettina Wittneben

Bettina Wittneben, Chukwumerije Okereke and Bobby Banerjee
Climate change: Challenging business, transforming politics

Julia Reinaud
Climate migation policies and carbon leakage – From competitiveness concerns to collution cavens

Natalie Unterstell and Michelle Ferreti
State-based oil companies and climate changes: An interpretation of Brazil and Norway cases
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Strategic Firm-Level Decisions

Chair: Bobby Banerjee

Edeltraud Guenther, Martin Nowack and Gabriel Weber
Is there a fragmentation of responsibility regarding to climate risk management in companies?

Nitu Goel
Redefining business imperatives and opportunities in a world of change

Frank Boons
Diversity in firm strategies towards climate change: Theoretical framework and application to the automotive production and consumption
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Industry Partnerships

Chair: Chukwumerije Okereke

Jessica Eriksson and Karl Bonnedahl
Carbon labelling: An arena of competing perspectives – and a path towards sustainable economic organization in the food sector?

Ans Kolk and Jonathan Pinkse
Partnerships for climate change

Magali Delmas and Maria J. Montes-Sancho
Voluntary agreements to improve environmental quality: Are late joiners the free riders?
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Climate Change Policy Making

Chair: Bettina Wittneben

Cristina Besio and Andrea Pronzini
Restlessness as a result of mass media's risk communication

Philipp Pattberg and Jonathan Stripple
Beyond the public and private divide: Remapping global climate governance

David Levy
The political economy of the carbon treadmill: Contestation and compromise in the climate change arena
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Carbon Markets

Chair: Bettina Wittneben

Malte Schneider and Volker Hoffmann
Corporate strategies in response to the clean development mechanism – Mitigation efforts in developing countries identifying resources and capabilities for engaging in developing countries

Steffen Böhm and Cristian Alarcon Ferrari
Upsetting the offset – The political economy of carbon markets – Part II: forest management and the myth of carbon sequestration

Olga Diukanova
The economic effect of domestic CO2 emissions trading scheme implementation in Ukraine: The general equilibrium approach
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
South-North Relations

Chair: Bobby Banerjee

Miriam Hinostroza and Karen Holm Olsen
The role of capacity development in making the clean development mechanism operational in developing countries

Fernanda Viana de Carvalho
Combating deforestation and mitigating climate change in Brazil: New international cooperation

Kenneth Amaeshi, Chukwumerije Okereke, Afam Ituma and Chima Mordi
Political climate and corporate climate reporting: A view from Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria and UK
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Puzzles and Conclusions

Chair: Chukwumerije Okereke

Catherine Cooremans
Strategic fit of energy efficiency


Bettina Wittneben, Chukwumerije Okereke and Bobby Banerjee
Conclusions

 

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