Maurits Dolmans, Senior Counsel with Cleary Gottlieb, on the Climate Prisoner’s Dilemma and Fiduciary Duty
About this episode
Maurits Dolmans discusses the implications of legal opinions on climate change obligations and fiduciary duty.
How could recent legal opinions shift state and private sector climate change obligations? Maurits Dolmans, Cleary Gottlieb, discusses how to rethink the obligations of fiduciary duty relative to climate action; why it may be the key to solving the climate prisoner’s dilemma; and what a legal framework for impact could look like.
Topics covered
- climate change
- fiduciary duty
- legal framework
- private sector obligations
- climate prisoner's dilemma
Keywords
- climate change
- fiduciary duty
- legal opinions
- impact framework
- climate prisoner's dilemma
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