Environmental pledges within the energy system – critical legal and rhetorical perspectives

The aim of the project is to increase the understanding of environmental pledges made by businesses and organizations (asserting their intentions to limit or offset negative climate effects) and to investigate how these pledges can be regulated in order to contribute to sustainability and legal certainty in the energy system.

The project exploits legal and rhetorical perspectives to develop a theoretical framework dedicated to examining and explaining the functions of environmental pledges in today’s energy system.

The Energy Agency deems that the project has the potential to contribute to the MESAM programme due to its contribution of new knowledge in an unexplored field of research.