Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the levels needed to achieve climate stabilization – currently believed to be at least 60%, globally, by 2050 – will require many industries to undergo very rapid technical change directed toward sustainability. Theory and experience suggest that without well-considered environmental governance, the private sector will not reach its full innovative potential in this area. The three papers included in this symposium take different empirical approaches to build policy-relevant knowledge regarding the relationship between technical change and environmental governance. Following the presentations, Magali Delmas, a major contributor to the field of environmental governance, and Stuart Graham, an influential thinker and researcher in technical change, will lead an interactive group discussion of the papers as well as of the broader space for research in this important area. Getting Beyond Reputation: Toward Supply Chain Level Sustainability Standards Presenter: Timothy M. Smith; U. of Minnesota Presenter: Jennifer Schmitt; U. of Minnesota Confronting Expectations with Empirical Evidence in Product Regulation and Innovation Presenter: Margaret Taylor; Stanford U. Presenter: C. Anna Spurlock; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Presenter: Hung-Chia Yang; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Avoiding premature technology lock-in through deployment policies Presenter: Tobias Schmidt; ETH Zurich Presenter: Benedikt Battke; ETH Zurich Presenter: David Grosspietsch; ETH Zurich Presenter: Volker H. Hoffmann; ETH Zurich