Mike Vandenbergh is a David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law, Director of Vanderbilt's Climate Change Research Network, and Co-Director of the Law School's Program on Energy, Environment, and Land Use Law. He teaches courses in environmental law, climate change justice, and property, and has been a visiting professor at the Wharton School’s Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and at the University of Chicago and Harvard Law Schools. His research focuses on working with interdisciplinary teams to explore environmental governance, environmental behavior, and climate change. His research has developed the concept of private environmental governance and explored how private governance initiatives can address polarization and other barriers to climate change mitigation. In this episode we discuss several of these initiatives, with more to follow in future episodes.