Author profile: Marco Grasso

Marco Grasso is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Milan- Bicocca. His interdisciplinary research contributed to the investigation of the governance, politics, and ethics of climate change at the national and global levels with regards to non-state actors, and to the theorization and empirical scrutiny of climate policy and politics in order to understand how to favour collective action towards the carbon transition. He embeds political, ethical, geographic, and economic analysis into the socio-political aspects of climate change with the objective of reframing climate issues in ways that make action more feasible. He is the author of From Big Oil to Big Green. Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press 2022), alongside a number of journal articles.

Climate Justice from Theory to Practice: The Responsibility and Duties of the Oil Industry

Marco Grasso • Feb 15 2023 • Articles

The duty of decarbonisation entails a large-scale transformation that oil companies ought to undergo in order to eventually eliminate carbon emissions from their business model.