A Green Board as a Climate-Change Imperative: Appointing a Climate-Change Expert to the Audit Committee

Authors

Porcher L. Taylor III, University of RichmondFollow
Harris L. Kay

Abstract

This article makes the innovative and timely case for a climate change imperative: a green board. Urgency is evident, with the arrival of "a fast-emerging new burden on board members to oversee their company's posture on climate change and to begin monitoring an area that, until now, has drawn scant attention in the boardroom."²¹ One major impetus for the proposal advocated in this Article is that there is apparently a dearth of green boards in corporate America.²² In contrast, European and Canadian companies appear to be at the vanguard of utilizing green boards.²³

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2011 University of Baltimore. This article first appeared in University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law 18:2 (2011), 215-261.

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Recommended Citation

Taylor, Porcher L., III, and Harris L. Kay. "A Green Board as a Climate-Change Imperative: Appointing a Climate-Change Expert to the Audit Committee." University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law 18, no. 2 (2011): 215-61.