The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności), headquartered in Kraków and founded in 1872, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of sciences. (The other is the Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw.) The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences is co-owner of the Polish Library in Paris..
ABSTRACT Polycentric governance is a trust‐intensive and trust‐dependent governance that should actively seek to build and restore trust. The different ways in which this is done are poorly understood. Our study of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and the green transition clarifies the role of enhanced self‐regulation and intermediaries in trust‐building and trust‐repair in polycentric governance. ESG rating providers as intermediaries may help to build and repair trust, but as with any trustee, they represent a trust challenge as well. This article addresses these issues and is organized around three major questions: First, what are the political dynamics around the adoption of the rules for ESG ratings providers in the EU and United Kingdom? Second, what are the differences between the trust‐building and the trust‐repair strategies deployed? Third, how do these differences reflect the different approaches to the trust challenges of regulation by and of intermediaries? We apply process tracing and a comparative analysis of the regulation of ESG rating providers to generate insights into the trust‐building and trust‐repair strategies of rule‐makers. Our analysis leads us to identify varieties of enhanced self‐regulation that are differentiated by the regulatory strategies adopted by the rule‐makers vis‐à‐vis regulatory intermediaries. We show how such efforts may combine different elements of mandatory and voluntary regulation, and we shed light on the differentiated conceptualizations and complexities of the function of trust in polycentric governance regimes as a whole.
The year 2024 being declared the Year of Czesław Miłosz, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, gives an inducement to recalling the poet also from the perspective of trivia, which do not make a specific unit in the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS, but in different departments are obvious traces of the Nobelist presence in the collections. From poetry books and second-circuit publications, to manuscripts and trivia, and lastly to ex libris dedicated to Miłosz.
In the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Kraków, in the extensive manuscript legacy of Fr. Jan Fijałek, there is a two-page draft of his speech on the 50th anniversary of the priestly ordination of Bishop Józef Sebastian Pelczar. The speech by the then dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Jagiellonian University, delivered 110 years ago, is a summary of Pelczar’s university activities and is part of the current celebration of the 100th anniversary of the holy Bishop.
