Despite global fractures in politics, trade and regulation, ESG is not disappearing. Instead, it is evolving, diversifying and recalibrating. While some regions are deepening their commitments, others must redefine ESG through shifting regulatory, political, and market pressures.
This conference will bring together senior in-house counsel and leading private practice lawyers to examine the legal imperatives shaping ESG’s future. We will explore the complex interplay between anti-corruption enforcement, trade and investment conflicts, and the tension between legal harmonisation and divergence across borders. We will consider how these forces are reshaping business strategies, compliance frameworks, and the role of lawyers today in navigating both the risks and the opportunities of the ESG of tomorrow.
Topics will include:
- State of the market
- ESG in Europe Today: Essential updates and business implications
- Ubuntu, an African approach to ESG
- Beyond the baseline: Navigating the untold ESG Challenges of AI and HPC Data centres
- The growing constitutionalisation of rights to a healthy environment
- The growing constitutional basis for addressing climate change in litigation
- Sustainability in mining and mineral extraction
- Resiliency in a shifting landscape, the shareholders of tomorrow
- From risk mitigation to market differentiation: Strategic ESG due diligence in the supply chain
- Recent developments in DEI and the Green Revolution in North America - Where are we now?
- The increasing movement of soft law into hard law