Overview
- Unpacks the most important developments 10 years upon the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights' adoption
- Addresses the environmental/climate change obligation inherent to the corporate responsibility to respect human rights
- Addresses complex issues in a clear language, making it an up-to-date and comprehensive research and teaching tool
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The monograph by Macchi proposes a functionalist reading of the state’s duty to regulate the transnational activities of corporations in order to protect human rights and adopts a holistic approach to the corporate responsibility to respect, arguing that environmental and climate due diligence are inherent dimensions of human rights due diligence.
In the volume emerging legislations are assessed on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence, as well as the potential and limitations of a binding international treaty on business and human rights. The book also reviews groundbreaking litigation against transnational corporations, such as Lungowe v. Vedanta or Milieudefensie v. Shell, for their human rights and climate change impacts.
The book is primarily targeted at academic and non-academic legal experts, as well as at researchers and students looking at business and human rights issues through the lenses of legal studies (particularly international law and European law), political sciences, business ethics, and management. Additionally, it should also find a readership among practitioners working in the public or private sector (consultants, CSR officers, legal officers, etc.) willing to familiarize themselves with the expanding areas of liability, financial and reputational risks connected to the social and environmental impacts of global supply chains.
Chiara Macchi is currently Lecturer in Law at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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The State Duty to Protect
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The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
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Remedies
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Looking Forward: Pathways to Improved State and Corporate Accountability
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Business, Human Rights and the Environment: The Evolving Agenda
Authors: Chiara Macchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-479-2
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the author 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-478-5Published: 10 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-481-5Published: 11 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-479-2Published: 08 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights, International Environmental Law, Business Ethics, Sustainable Development, European Law