Decarbonising states as owners

On Owners-as-Accessors

Prescriptive ownership systems generally impose one of two disciplines on programs: either owners-as-dominators, or owners-as-modifiers. In this paper we discuss “owners-as-accessors” — a discipline that is stricter than ownersas-modifiers but more lenient than owners-as-dominators. We provide a concise informal definition of owners-as-accessors, discuss some existing systems that employ this d...

Institutional Investors As Owners Conference

The terms of the Fellowship require that I organize a conference related in someway to ethics and business leadership, a rather broad and open-ended mandate. I think the importance of corporate governance in American public companies is clearly related to ethics and business leadership. And I would also say that the complex and rapidly evolving role of institutional owners will see a great deal...

Uncertainties in decarbonising heat in the UK

Heating is arguably one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise in the UK's energy system. Meeting the 80% greenhouse gas emission reduction target by 2050 is likely to require that heat related emissions of CO2 from buildings are near zero by 2050, and there is a 70% reduction in emissions from industry (from 1990 levels). Though it is clear that the use of the natural gas network will re...

Roles for Owners

Ownership types were proposed to characterize the topology of objects on the heap. They notionally organize objects into boxes, and each box belongs to an object – its owner. In most ownership-based systems, the box protects the object from its environment in some way. Thus, the owner may play the owners-as-dominators role, whereby the owner restricts access to the objects in a box, (i.e. the “...

Home-owners and poverty