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Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit 2023 – Legal innovations: what key legal strategies are being deployed to further sustainable finance?
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 on class actions alleging that companies’ ESG-related disclosures are inaccurate. Outside the courtroom, corporate and finance lawyers have an important role to play in ensuring…
Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit 2023 – Achieving the aims of the biodiversity framework: What role for finance?
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 Framework is being hailed by some as a ‘Paris Agreement for Nature’. It commits signatories to act to conserve 30% of land, sea and freshwater…
In-person launch of the legal opinion, ‘Directors’ Duties & Responsibilities and Disclosure Obligations Under Philippine Law On Climate Change Risks’
The Fairmont Makati, Makati, The Philippines The Fairmont Makati, 1, Raffles Drive, Makati Ave, MakatiAfter 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 the legal opinion at an in-person event, 'Directors’ Duties & Responsibilities and Disclosure Obligations Under Philippine Law On Climate Change Risks'. The launch event was…