Scott, J;
Smith, TWP;
Rehmatulla, N;
Milligan, B;
(2017)
The promise and limits of private standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.
Journal of Environmental Law
, 29
(2)
pp. 231-262.
10.1093/jel/eqw033.
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Abstract
This article examines private standards that aim to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in shipping. These have emerged against a backdrop of regulatory inertia and the exclusion of international shipping from the Paris Climate Change Agreement. They are a product of complex governance arrangements and they have addressed areas of market failure that have held back fuel efficiency advances that are made possible by technological innovations. These private standards hold considerable promise but suffer to different degrees from certain weaknesses, notably a lack of transparency, a low level of ambition and concerns about data reliability. This article examines these deficiencies together with the reasons for them, and assesses the role that law could play in addressing them. It argues that the conditions may be present for the mitigation of shipping’s GHG emissions to become a site of ‘hybrid’ governance, combining private standards and state/supra-state law in a productive way.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The promise and limits of private standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jel/eqw033 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqw033 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508513 |
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