Essays about: "transnational governance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 essays containing the words transnational governance.

  1. 1. Climate Security Synergies? : Investigating the Policy Responses of the EU and NATO

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Elina Ankler; [2023]
    Keywords : climate change; climate security; international cooperation; integrated governance; NATO; EU;

    Abstract : Climate change is increasingly recognised as a threat to security by having implications on national defence and human wellbeing. Due to the transnational nature of climate change and its security implications, intergovernmental organisations (IGO:s) have become prominent actors in addressing such risks. READ MORE

  3. 2. Spatial Visions and the Future of Norrland : A case study of the spatial vision following Northvolt’s establishment in Skellefteå

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013)

    Author : Axel Irengård; Alva Lindström; [2023]
    Keywords : Northvolt; Skellefteå kommun; Region Västerbotten; Northern Sweden; Norrland; the European Union; Multilevel Governance; Spatial Visions; Northvolt; Skellefteå kommun; Region Västerbotten; Norra Sverige; Norrland; EU; Flernivåstyre; Geografiska visioner;

    Abstract : In March of 2017, Northvolt announced at a press conference in Skellefteå that they had received the green light on their factory Northvolt Ett, a lithium-ion battery factory running on 100 per cent renewable energy. The industrial establishment has meant a great increase in population and a consequent increase in demand for housing and services. READ MORE

  4. 3. Corporate impunity and the ‘accountability gap’ in Sub-Saharan Africa: is the successful prosecution of corporate involvement in atrocity crimes within reach?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Joseph Keogh; [2022]
    Keywords : International criminal law; corporate criminal liability; transnational corporations; atrocity crime; corporate impunity; Africa; Global North; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Although transnational corporations (hereinafter TNCs) often far outmatch States in terms of resources and influence over the direction of the world economy, they are generally unaccounted for when operating outside the territories in which they are incorporated (hereinafter ‘home States’). This thesis will look specifically at those TNCs that rely on natural resource extraction as their main source of profit. READ MORE

  5. 4. Climate governance in a well-ordered world : an analysis of Rawlsian climate justice and the goal of climate action

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Andreas Ekvall; [2022]
    Keywords : Rawls’; distributional justice; communitarianism; Agenda 2030; climate justice;

    Abstract : The aspiration of normative theory to conceptualise climate justice is a contested endeavour. At best there are certain agreements about what constitutes distributional justice on a surface level, while it remains challenged whether such conceptualisation is helpful in the realisation of climate justice. READ MORE

  6. 5. Profiting from or fighting climate change? A case study of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ivan Davydov; [2022]
    Keywords : climate change; sustainability; liberal environmentalism; climate clubs; climate governance; OGCI; Oil and Gas Climate Initiative; non-state actors; private actors; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Following recent developments in multilateral cooperation, literature on global climate governance has paid increasing attention to non-state actors. Contributing to this debate, this study focuses on a new group of businesses that aim to combat climate change, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). READ MORE