In a new blog post, opens an external URL in a new window, published in LSE Business Review, Elke Schüßler (Institute of Organization Science), Nora Lohmeyer (Nijmegen School of Management) and Sarah Ashwin (LSE) discuss the question whether business can collaborate to save the planet. In a world fractured by conflict, the difficulty in intergovernmental coordination to avoid climate catastrophe is apparent. Can business step in and help speed up collaboration? The authors consider a mechanism enabling firms to cooperate with each other to address systemic problems: the creation of market-protected spaces through collective regulation.