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Climate Change Comes to Insurance

This opinion piece explains the risks climate change poses to insurers, both as underwriters and as investors. It argues that it is necessary to align incentives in the insurance industry to prevent widespread defaults that would leave policyholders unprotected and examine areas where risks are distributed inequitably.

Bridget Pals and Michael PanfilDecember 3, 2021

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Comments to Federal Insurance Office on the Insurance Sector and Climate-Related Financial Risks

These comments make recommendations to the Treasury Department's Federal Insurance Office on how it can monitor, analyze, and address climate-related risks in the insurance industry.

Jack Lienke, Bridget Pals, Alex Song, Madison Condon, Michael Panfil, Stephanie Jones and Romany WebbNovember 15, 2021

Financial Regulation Journal Article Private Governance Risk Management

Disclosure of Private Environmental Governance Risks

This article argues that the SEC should take action to require better disclosure of private environmental governance risks.

Michael VandenberghJanuary 11, 2021

Journal Article Private Governance Risk Management

The Gap-Filling Role of Private Environmental Governance

This article explains the efficacy of private environmental governance efforts as a gap filling tool for government regulatory regimes.

Michael Vandenbergh, Jim Rossi and Ian FaucherJune 10, 2020

Journal Article Private Governance Risk Management

Social Checks and Balances: A Private Fairness Doctrine

This article proposes a private standards and certification system to induce media firms to provide more complete and accurate information, which would use a new private fairness doctrine to replace the standard repealed by the FCC, and would bolster the social checks and balances that support the processes of democratic…

Michael VandenberghDecember 6, 2019

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Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in Natural Resources Management

This article traces the policy evolution that embedded consideration of ecosystem services in lands management, assesses why and how that happened and what it means for the future of lands management, and argues that land management agencies' emphasis on the flow of ecosystem services from public lands to off-site human…

J.B. Ruhl and James SalzmanOctober 17, 2019

Private Governance Risk Management Textbook

Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change

Starting with the insight that much of the resistance to climate mitigation is grounded in concern about the role of government, this book draws on law, policy, social science, and climate science to demonstrate how private initiatives are already bypassing government inaction in the U.S. and around the world and…

Michael Vandenbergh and Jonathan GilliganDecember 1, 2017

Journal Article Private Governance Risk Management

The Role of Individual and Household Behavior in Decarbonization

This article argues that household behavior matters for deep decarbonization and laws, policies, and programs that target behavioral change can be employed to facilitate decarbonization

Michael Vandenbergh and Paul SternNovember 1, 2017

Essay Private Governance Risk Management

Private Governance and the New Private Advocacy

This article argues that an exclusive focus on public governance and advocacy will miss opportunities to affect large aspects of the modern regulatory landscape and suggests that private advocacy and private governance will play a growing role in environmental law and policy as the federal role in environmental protection shrinks.

Michael Vandenbergh and Ben RakerSeptember 1, 2017

Private Governance

Climate Change Comes to Insurance

Comments to Federal Insurance Office on the Insurance Sector and Climate-Related Financial Risks

Disclosure of Private Environmental Governance Risks

The Gap-Filling Role of Private Environmental Governance

Social Checks and Balances: A Private Fairness Doctrine

Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in Natural Resources Management

Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change

The Role of Individual and Household Behavior in Decarbonization

Private Governance and the New Private Advocacy

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