Enforcing Private Environmental Governance Through Community Contracts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of the greatest challenges in private environmental governance is enforceability: if we are depending upon corporations like banks and insurance companies to formulate and implement standards that curb greenhouse gas emissions and discourage environmental harm, how do we know whether these firms are living up to those commitments? And, if they are not living up to those commitments, what is the remedy? Using the Carbon Principles as an example, this essay explores whether coupling private environmental governance initiatives with community contracts could strengthen the effectiveness of and provide a level of enforcement, or at least a measure of public accountability, for both. To accomplish this, compliance with specific private environmental governance standards and principles could be expressly included in the community contract, making compliance an obligation of the corporate party. This would not completely solve the problem of enforcement in the context of private environmental governance measures, since there is still the issue of monitoring and compliance. However, it would at least make the public aware of these standards and could create “soft” enforcement by connecting the failure to comply with negative publicity and public opinion.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.020 | 0.032 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".