Legal solutions for a net zero future: launching the International Bar Association's Climate Registry

Lara Douvartzidis is a Senior Legal Executive at the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance. Prior to that she worked in the Legal Policy and Research Unit at the IBA in environment, climate and business and human rights law. She has experience as Delegate Lead for UNFCCC and COP engagement and is an Associate Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. She is an Australian qualified lawyer with a practice background in Sydney as a solicitor and Pro Bono coordinator at Johnson Winter & Slattery and at Australia’s Public Interest Advocacy Centre. During her time in private practice, she advised and acted for corporate and pro bono clients with expertise in environment and planning law, dispute resolution and class actions, ESG and modern slavery law obligations and transitional issues faced by clients in these emerging areas. She is passionate about strategic climate litigation trends, First Nations justice, just transitions, and ESG related risk management and compliance. She served as the Associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Kourakis of the Supreme Court of South Australia. She holds an Advanced Masters in European and International Human Rights Law (Ad. LLM) from Leiden University in The Netherlands and a double degree in Law (LLB) and Environmental Policy and Management (BEnvs) from the University of Adelaide, South Australia. She was listed as an Australasian Rising Star in 2021, a Finalist in the Australian Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards for Planning, Native Title and Environment Law in 2021, and a Finalist in the Women in Law Awards for Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2020 and 2021.