{"id":25702,"date":"2023-10-11T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=25702"},"modified":"2023-10-11T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:28:01","slug":"oct-11-climate-washing-corporate-accountability-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2023\/10\/11\/oct-11-climate-washing-corporate-accountability-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Climate Washing, Corporate Accountability &amp; Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Climate Washing, Corporate Accountability &amp;amp; Human Rights\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7GkRFBkmDI?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Monmouth University Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.gwu.edu\/randall-s-abate\">Randall Abate<\/a> returned to campus Oct. 11 to deliver a presentation titled &#8220;Climate Washing, Corporate Accountability &amp; Human Rights.\u201d The event was sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Sociology and the Urban Coast Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" style=\"object-position: 39.025% 21.93%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Randall Abate\" class=\"wp-image-25711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/09\/highresolution51_1.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abate, now the assistant dean for environmental law studies at the George Washington University Law School, discussed \u201cclimate washing\u201d litigation that seeks to hold fossil fuel companies and other private sector entities accountable for misleading the public about their compliance with climate change mandates or goals. Climate washing tactics can threaten human rights to health, property, food and water, and life, especially in vulnerable communities, by postponing effective climate regulation and thereby amplifying the risks from climate change-related events such as severe storms, flooding, heat and droughts. The presentation proposed mechanisms to help ensure that companies\u2019 characterizations of climate change compliance are transparent and truthful to limit human rights impacts from their efforts to comply with climate change mandates and goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Monmouth University Professor Randall Abate returned to campus Oct. 11 to deliver a presentation titled &#8220;Climate Washing, Corporate Accountability &amp; Human Rights.\u201d The event was sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Sociology and the Urban Coast Institute. 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