Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change

Edited by Elbert de Jong, Professor of Private Law, Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents
1 Introduction 1
Elbert de Jong, Anneloes Kuiper, Marlou Overheul and
Anne-Jetske Schaap
2 Greenhouse gas emissions in global value chains:
governance, regulation and liability 13
Jaakko Salminen, Mikko Rajavuori and Mika Viljanen
3 Corporate actors and climate harms: the role of human rights law 33
Jacques Hartmann and Annalisa Savaresi
4 Evolving business responsibilities for climate-related
harms under the united nations guiding principles on
business and human rights and OECD MNE guidelines 53
Sara L. Seck and Lisa Benjamin
5 Contracting for climate change in GVC 86
Nevena Jevremović
6 The potential of contractual assurances to advance supply
chain due diligence 109
Jaap Baaij and Alex Geert Castermans
7 Consumers’ contribution to climate change mitigation and
their empowerment through EU law 141
Tania Pantazi
8 From climate risk to climate opportunity: a functional
framework for pension fund investment governance 167
Esmeralda Colombo
9 Liability for climate change impacts: the role of climate
attribution science 205
Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Friederike E.L. Otto and Thom Wetzer
10 Strict liability for climate harm: the case of Norway 234
Jenny Sandvig and Christina Voigt
11 Liability of non-state actors for scope 3-emissions 250
Edward Brans and Mathijs Peters
12 The role of the courts in private climate change litigation 269
Laurien Nijenhuis
13 The economics of climate damage assessment in courts 290
Francesca Leucci
14 Compensation funds for climate change – potential
developments from a comparative law perspective 311
Kim Watts