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Topic: Climate and Environment
International Perspectives on True & Fair Accounting: Legal Insights from SVI’s Campaign Across Europe
This virtual roundtable will present the English law legal opinion commissioned by Social Value International, and explore how this maps across into other key European jurisdictions, based on legal analyses undertaken in partnership with GAIL in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
Implementing CSDDD: Legal Tools for Sustainable Supply Chains
As part of London Climate Action Week, this webinar was for legal professionals dedicated to advancing supply chain and procurement sustainability. The GAIL Europe Board explored the latest tools and strategies for enhancing sustainability with a focus on implementing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Business Interests, Global Regulation and Climate Challenges: The Role of African Impact Lawyers
Our panel navigated the tensions lawyers face in balancing business interests with the evolving regulatory demands of the Global North, and the impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social issues in Africa.
The Legal Character of Voluntary Carbon Credits: A Way Forward
By: GenZero and Allen & Gledhill LLP Clarity in the legal character of voluntary carbon credits (VCCs) is crucial for the scale-up of the voluntary carbon market. For principals that transact in VCCs, primary concerns include transferability of legal title and their ability to exercise proprietary rights over these VCCs, particularly where they are in…
Rwanda, Strategic Destination Hub of Choice for Climate Finance in Africa
Rwanda is steadily progressing to meet its climate change mitigation goals and is also focused on ensuring the economy and its people can resiliently withstand the increasing effects of climate change through a number of adaptation measures.
Lawyers can use their privileged position to combat climate change
Law’s vital role in combating climate change is hindered by practices fuelling self-termination. Bates Wells’ David Hunter explores how lawyers can use their imagination and agency to reshape legal frameworks for a sustainable future.
Implementing CSDDD: Legal Tools for Sustainable Supply Chains
As part of London Climate Action Week, this webinar was for legal professionals dedicated to advancing supply chain and procurement sustainability. The GAIL Europe Board explored the latest tools and strategies for enhancing sustainability with a focus on implementing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Rewriting the Rules – Pathways to Legal Systems Change by Indy Johar
A keynote session at the GAIL Annual Summit 2024 delving into the very roots of our legal systems, challenging conventional thinking and necessitating a re-evaluation of our legal and economic frameworks and the role of lawyers in bringing about this transformation.
APAC Impact Law Initiatives – From Climate Contracts to Blended Finance
In collaboration with LITE Lab@HKU x TCLP Climate Contracting Initiative, GAIL APAC is organising this in-person roundtable to highlight its recently published “Unlocking the Legal Pathways for Blended Finance” report, in particular its Asia chapter and case studies, together with a spotlight on recent initiatives to develop green legal documentation in Singapore, Hong Kong and beyond.
Leveraging Law and Economics to Tackle Climate Change by Professor Elizabeth Robinson
A keynote session at the GAIL Annual Summit 2024 on the crucial intersection of law, economics, and climate action, with a focus on attributing health outcomes to emissions, paving the way for accountability among emitters, the potential for litigation for damages and creating incentives to steer large emitters away from fossil fuels.