The Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative (CCLI), a UK-based charity, and the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, National University of Singapore (EWBCLB), a premier business law research centre…

In the context of a rise in climate change-related litigation and activism, City & Financial Global hosted an event titled, ‘Climate and ESG Legal Risk Management Summit’ in London, on…

The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), together with Pollination, launched the legal opinion at an in-person event, ‘Legal Opinion: Directors’ Duties & Nature Risk’. The launch event was held…

Sustainable finance is a rapidly developing area of legal innovation. Courts are being asked by shareholders to ensure that corporations are sufficiently ambitious in their climate targets and to rule…

After two years of delays, COP15 was finally held in December, bringing together nearly 200 governments to negotiate a global agreement on biodiversity and conservation. The resulting Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity…

After a successful soft launch at an online roundtable in November 2022, the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), together with ClientEarth and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) launched…

In this webinar, Jenni Ramos explored the key takeaways from our global paper Biodiversity Risk: Legal Implications for Companies and their Directors. We heard from Geoff Summerhayes, Senior Advisor, Pollination…

Litigation has the potential to help drive the transition to a net zero economy by holding corporations and financial entities to their net zero transition plans, and to re-allocate capital…

Halting and reversing the ongoing loss and degradation of nature and its biodiversity are amongst the greatest challenges of our time. The current state of play is deeply worrying. The…

The legal opinion and white paper were discussed at a virtual event co-hosted with the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL), part of the University of Hong Kong. Speakers…

We discussed the legal opinion and white paper at a webinar co-hosted with the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF). This event was focused on the legal community, which we…

The Global Primer was launched in EMEA, Latin America, Asia Pacific and North America. Our supporters for these events included the Canada Climate Law Initiative, Aviva Investors, Chapter Zero UK,…

The legal opinion was launched at a webinar with over 800 attendees in conjunction with the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at the National University of Singapore and…

The report was launched at a webinar hosted by the Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership, with presentations from the authors of the report, as well as Mr. Satoshi Ikeda (Chief Sustainable…

To coincide with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in April 2018, the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) launched and published a series of research reports, including…

The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) organised two high-level symposia in South Africa on the legal basis for directors and trustees to consider, manage, and report on climate change-related…

This webinar provided an overview of the regulatory landscape in relation to the TCFD recommendations and climate risk, in addition to a detailed analysis of the current situation in Australia…

The symposia highlighted what leading companies are doing to manage climate change risk and to develop opportunities from the policy transition underway to a low-carbon economy. The symposia did involve…

The 2017 NELA conference brought together a range of experts to discuss the state of Australia’s environment, how various States are addressing past impacts, and innovative mechanisms being explored to…

This Roundtable was arranged by Chartered Accountants ANZ and CPA Australia, in cooperation with the Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative (CCLI). The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial…

Alice Garton, co-investigator at CCLI and Company and Financial Project Leader at ClientEarth, spoke at the FT Climate Finance Summit in London, which gathered some of the leading decision makers,…

As business steels itself to deal with seismic changes in the world’s climate, what is legally expected of directors is becoming more stringent. The Paris Climate talks in December 2015…

Alice Garton, part of CCLI, joined a panel examine international developments in the emerging field of climate change litigation. This seminar addresses warnings given in 2015 in a major report…

Panel featuring Prof Mervyn King SC and CCLI’s Australian convenor, Sarah Barker (Minter Ellison), hosted by CPA Australia and Melbourne Law School’s Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL)…

CCLI through ClientEarth, together with IIGCC, PRI, CDP, Influence Map and Bentham Europe, co-organised a breakfast seminar to explore the liability risks that climate change poses to companies, and what…

Climate change presents material – if not unparalleled – economic risks and opportunities. These emerging exposures have implications for corporate governance in climate-risk exposed industries (from financial services to mining,…

The first of three high-level international symposia on the legal exposures of company directors for climate change damages. The first symposium was held at Lady Margaret Hall, a college within…

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority recently pointed out that fiduciaries, including company directors and pension fund trustees, could be held liable for i) contributing to anthropogenic climate change…