Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problem, Varying Strategies (Issues in Environmental Politics) - Hardcover

The objective of this book is to explain the sources of the oil industry's climate change strategy. By doing so, one can understand how better to motivate or co-opt these powerful entities to increase their support for policies that reduce emissions and to play a role in those reductions. The work is accessible to students, who may be encouraged to question each of the models and their explanatory strength. --Int Environ Agreements 2008 8:91-94

This volume considers how multinational corporations can be part of the solution to environmental problems, focusing on the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell, and Statoil as case studies. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to climate policy can be overcome. The analytical approach developed by the authors is also applicable to other areas of environmental degradation where multinational corporations play a central role. Invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners interested in national and international environmental politics, and business environmental management. An important and timely volume given the challenges facing environmentalists and policy-makers following the breakdown of the Kyoto protocol. -- .