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Ecosystem Collapse, Food Insecurity and the United Kingdom: Integrating National Security and Long-term Food System Reform
EnvironmentAgriculture
While the United Kingdom (UK) has had an integrated food market since the mid-19th century, food is not a reserved matter following devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. As...Read more
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Simon Boyle
Environmental Law Director, Landmark Information Group, UK
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Daniel Scrase
Trainee Solicitor, Agri Advisor Legal LLP, UK
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Lucy Crabtree
Paralegal, Thompsons Solicitors LLP, UK
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Sir Crispin Agnew KC
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Dundee, UK
Ecocide as an International Law Crime: The Tension Between Objective and Means
EnvironmentGeneral
On 9th September 2024, Vanuatu, Samoa, and Fiji formally proposed an ecocide amendment to the Rome Statute, the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court. If adopted, ecocide would become a...Read more
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Jürg Gassmann
Director and General Counsel, Envisionation Limited, Ireland
Biodiversity Net Gain and the Task Force for NatureDisclosures Help Prevent the Sixth Mass Extinction?
EnvironmentProperty
Scientists recognise a dual planetary crisis: climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. The current extermination of nature by humans is often called the sixth mass extinction. Climate breakdown is caused by...Read more
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Simon Boyle
Environmental Law Director, Landmark Information Group, UK
To (form an) Environmental Social Governance Committee or not to (form an) ESG Committee? That is the question (for boards)
EnvironmentConsultant
As ESG (environmental, social and governance) concerns continue to play a major role in business discourse, and given the breadth of the term, should boards be setting up ESG sub-committees...Read more
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Tom Proverbs-Garbett
Associate Director, ESG, RSM UK Consulting LLP, UK
Lawyers and Climate Change
EnvironmentBanking & Finance
The growing threat of climate change will define this century and our generation more dramatically than any other challenge. It is widely recognised by scientists and environmentalists that we have...Read more
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Vesselina Haralampieva
Senior Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UK
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Michael Strauss
General Counsel, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UK
Are Lawyers A Shoo-In for Sustainability?
EnvironmentManufacturing
In their 2021 Focus 15 Report, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) described sustainability as a growing business concern that has become a strategic priority. Much of this increased importance is...Read more
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Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer, Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Responsible and Sustainable Business Conduct – Everyone’s Business
EnvironmentConsultant
Many leading businesses have recognised the importance of an integrated view of sustainability and responsible business conduct across their operations and business relationships as a key strategic priority for their...Read more
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Nicole Bigby
Partner and General Counsel - EMEA & Asia, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, UK
Governing and Innovating for Good: The Public Private Frontier
EnvironmentEnergy
What does it mean for an organisation to govern and innovate for good? What principles can organisations enshrine – structurally or otherwise – to ensure the common good is always...Read more
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Anna White
General Counsel, EIT Climate-KIC, UK
Assessing the Risk and Impact of Climate, and Social and Human Capital on a Corporation: An In-house Counsel’s Perspective
EnvironmentUniversity
With the exception of the few skeptics, climate change has been acknowledged worldwide, and climate change is impacting our environment globally. Companies, and the things we produce, and the way...Read more
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Mary Kennard
Vice President & General Counsel (retired), American University, USA
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Looking Beyond Compliance
EnvironmentUtility
Generally in India (with few respectable exceptions) EHS is looked at as an item of checking the box i.e. a matter of formality to be followed primarily ...Read more
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Manish Asarkar
Legal & Compliance Head- India, Black & Veatch -India, India
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