Amy Janzwood

• PhD, Political Science and Environmental Studies
• Assistant Professor at McGill University

Architectures of Earth System Governance - edited by Frank Biermann May 2020

While the vast majority of oil pipeline projects in Canada have been successfully built, several mega oil sands projects within and passing through Canada have been cancelled or significantly delayed. This article explains why these delays and cancellations have occurred. A systematic cross-case analysis is used to provide insight into the changing...

Fossil fuel proponents and governments have framed natural gas as a “bridge fuel” necessary for a smooth global energy transition. However, environmental and climate justice groups warn that natural gas will lock in high carbon pathways, in addition to creating significant environmental harms and health risks for affected communities. This contesta...

While anecdotal evidence suggests that transnational private rule-making organizations (TPROs)—such as eco-certification organizations—lobby public policy makers, we know little about the extent of this phenomenon or the characteristics of TPROs that lobby. TPRO lobbying is relevant given that their rule-making activities directly intersect with pu...

In its 20 years of operation, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has been enormously successful as a private governor of corporate climate risk disclosure. Despite an influx of potentially competitive government‐led disclosure initiatives and interventions, the use of CDP's platform has nonetheless accelerated. To explain this outcome, we argue th...

Pipelines are technological and political undertakings, but also financial feats. When pipelines are in protracted states of uncertainty—not yet built, but not yet canceled—the outcomes seem not to benefit anyone: proponents face cost overruns and regulatory battles, while potentially affected communities remain under threat of disruption and dispo...

Carbon pricing has the potential to disrupt carbon lock-in by changing the behaviour of companies, governments and citizens. The World Bank Group launched The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) in 2015 as a response to calls for a price on carbon. The CPLC fosters political leadership on carbon pricing by bringing together stakeholders from...

Dozens of countries are reviewing their extant international investment agreement commitments, fueling the global debate about the future of investment protection in trade and investment agreements. Although the rate of new international investment agreements has slowed, intra-developed country agreement negotiations are on the rise. This paper con...

Since the WTO’s creation its relationship with civil society has changed significantly. In this article, we use an original dataset to: (1) plot the changes that have taken place in civil society group representation at the WTO Public Forum; and (2) assess the significance of these changes for understandings of public interactions with the WTO. We...

Review: Ferdi De Ville and Gabriel Siles-Brügge, TTIP: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Cambridge; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016).

CDP was the first organization to provide global data on corporate carbon emissions and is a central actor in the corporate governance of carbon disclosure. Using the politics of decarbonization framework developed by Bernstein and Hoffmann (2016), as well as data from interviews with key individuals at CDP and other relevant institutions, this pap...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) contain unprecedented commitments to regulatory cooperation—the hallmark of a new wave of free trade agreements that emphasizes non-tariff barriers to trade. Regulatory cooperation in its most ambitious form, harmonization, is the pre...