Paris Summit 2015 – Each country’s pledge
Carbon Brief has been following each country’s pledge towards the Paris 2015 summit. Here on this post you will find more details on how each country pledged in the upcoming summit. While for some countries, the pledges seem a big task however it will be interesting to see if they manage to achieve the target. […]
What is emissions trading and what is it good for? Part 2 of 2
Instruments that have the power to reduce pollution emissions are one of the topics we study in our course, and looking closer on certain issues it can get sometimes more technical to understand problems better. Emission trading was first developed as an economic theory to internalize damaging externalities like pollution, which means that negative effects on the […]
What is Corporate Social Responsibility about?
Today we started a new class that is mostly about Corporate Social Responsibility. If you never heard about it, don’t worry you don’t have to check it on Wikipedia, just continue reading! Corporate Social Responsibility, or short CSR is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. That means that firms try to […]