2024 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review: Spotlighting Climate Change, Nature Repair, Transport, and Greenwashing
2024 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review: Spotlighting Climate Change, Nature Repair, Transport, and Greenwashing The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to its Environmental Law Year in Review Conference on 8 March 2024. In Australia and around the world, 2023 was a significant year for climate and …
Restoration Law and Finance Conference: Legal and Financial Obstacles to Rehabilitation, Rehydration and Regeneration of Land and Water and Options for Reform
Restoration Law and Finance Conference: Legal and Financial Obstacles to Rehabilitation, Rehydration and Regeneration of Land and Water and Options for Reform In-person event The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to Australia’s inaugural ‘Restoration Law and Finance Conference’ on Thursday and Friday, 7 & 8 December 2023. …
2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda
2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda In-person event The United Nations Secretary-General’s Acceleration Agenda spells out the actions needed from government, business and finance leaders to accelerate their efforts to deeply cut emissions and deliver climate justice to protect lives and livelihoods. In the context of climate justice …
ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address and Panel Discussions: Legal accelerants for climate action: taking stock for COP28
ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address and Panel Discussions: Legal accelerants for climate action: taking stock for COP28 In-person event Climate action is more urgent than ever. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached its highest point in at least two million years, and climate change is causing widespread, and unequal, adverse impacts on nature and …
Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than “Woke Capitalism”?
Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than “Woke Capitalism”? In-person event Investor and regulator concerns about companies’ mismanagement of climate and nature risks are now a prominent feature of the economic and legal landscape. Companies have been increasingly committing themselves to an ESG agenda – making commitments on environment, social and governance factors. In the United …
Federal Environmental Law reform: past lessons, priority reforms, future challenges
Federal Environmental Law reform: past lessons, priority reforms, future challenges The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to its ‘Environmental Law Year in Review Conference’ on Tuesday, 14 February 2023. In 2022, the new Federal Government declared ‘the environment is back’ and took office with an ambitious reform …
Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspective
Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspective In-person event In this seminar, Prof M Marc-Philippe Weller (Heidelberg University) takes the spectacular 2021 Milieudefensie v Shell ruling from a first instance court in The Hague as an opportunity to identify cross-jurisdictional problems of civil climate change litigation from a comparative perspective. The Shell case was the first …
ACCEL NextGen Series: Realism in the Corporate Sphere – Greenwashing and Net Zero
ACCEL NextGen Series: Realism in the Corporate Sphere – Greenwashing and Net Zero THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL. The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law invites you to a panel discussion on the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility’s case against Santos. Developed and chaired by the ACCEL …
Sharma: The future of climate litigation in Australia
Sharma: The future of climate litigation in Australia The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) invites you to a panel discussion on the Sharma decision and its impact on future climate litigation. This panel, chaired by the ACCEL interns, will be the inaugural ACCEL NextGen Series event. You will hear from those directly …
ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Speaker Address: Can climate litigation save the planet?: the role of climate attribution science
ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Speaker Address – Can climate litigation save the planet?: the role of climate attribution science Speakers: Dr Petra Minnerop, Durham University and Dr Friederike Otto, University of Oxford and Global Climate Science Programme Litigants are increasingly approaching the courts in the face of inadequate action by governments and corporations on climate change. Plaintiffs …