II. Legal Roundtable: Advancing Global Accountability for Corporate Climate Action

What legal and regulatory changes are needed globally to support the effective implementation of corporate net zero pledges? What accountability mechanisms are available under domestic and international law to ensure companies deliver on climate action promises and are held responsible for climate damage? How can businesses themselves be better engaged to ensure greater transparency and accountability regarding their climate actions and what changes are needed in the existing legal and financial regulatory frameworks to support them?
Hosted by Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF), Univ Melbourne; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Env’t (GRI), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE); Dept Land Economy, Univ Cambridge; Centre on Int’l Courts & Tribunals, Univ College London (UCL)
Chair: Prof Jacqueline Peel (MCF Director, Univ Melbourne)
Speakers / Discussants: HE Janine Felson (Member, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities / MCF Enterprise, Univ Melbourne); Prof Joana Setzer (GRI Assoc Prof Research Fellow, LSE); Prof Harro van Asselt (Climate Law Hatton Prof, Land Economy, Univ Cambridge); Prof Philippe Sands KC (Director, Centre on Int’l Courts & Tribunals, UCL); Adv Rebekkah Markey-Towler (MCF Research Fellow, Univ Melbourne); Adv Roanna McClelland (PhD Cand, Melbourne Law School, Univ Melbourne)