Buying Time: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change: Michael Vandenbergh at TEDxNashville

Michael Vandenbergh is a leading scholar in environmental and energy law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he holds the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law. He also is director of Vanderbilt's Climate Change Research Network, where his work involves interdisciplinary teams that focus on the reduction of carbon emissions from the individual and household sector. His academic research explores the relationship between formal legal regulation and informal social regulation of individual and corporate behavior, the influence of social norms on corporate behavior, and the ways in which private contracting can enhance or undermine public governance.


About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)