The following are two of my current research projects:

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The privatization of global environmental governance

This project investigates the role of transnational corporate elite mobilization, global transcorporate political action, and transcorporate organizational change in the shift of global environmental governance into market-driven forms such as corporate environmentalism, private regulation frameworks, and carbon markets (ie, the privatization of global environmental governance). This is a historical inquiry (1990-2020), which employs qualitative methods in studying the activities and ideologies of transnational corporations and business associations and a quantitative network analysis of the role of corporate elite networks in the global diffusion of corporate environmentalism.      

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The emergence and potential of “financialized climate governance” (FCG)

Funded by the Binational Science Foundation (U.S.-Israel) and Climate Social Science Network (Brown University), and pursued with fellow PI David L. Levy (University of Massachusetts, Boston), this project examines the recently booming movement among large institutional investors to redefine corporate GHG emission as financial risk, thereby exerting pressure on major emitters to shift away from polluting operations. We address several aspects of FCG, including mobilization dynamics, shifting alignments, and power relations in the field, the work of professionals to translate climate metrics into financial measures of value and risk, and FCG’s actual effectiveness in driving change despite its privatized, for-profit nature and obvious risks of greenwashing.