IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
29 Oct - 3 Nov 2023
Room 253, Level 2
Session information
Creating the first international law roadmap to net zero: where the law needs to enable climate change success, and how lawyers can get it there
Monday 30 October (1115 - 1230)
Room 253, Level 2
Committee(s)
Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL)
(Lead)
Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee
International Construction Projects Committee
Mining Law Committee
Oil and Gas Law Committee
Power Law Committee
Water Law Committee
Description
In recent years, countries, corporations and other actors have announced commitments to address climate change by developing roadmaps to “net zero” - the point at which greenhouse gas emissions have a neutral impact on the climate. While there has been dramatic growth in the number of voluntary corporate commitments and government targets under the Paris Agreement, the legal roadmap to net zero remains vastly underdeveloped. Developing a legal roadmap to net zero has the opportunity to create both carrots and sticks approaches to enable governments to accelerate net zero efforts, to foster environments where companies are incentivised to control and limit emissions, and where the public has opportunities to participate in advancing climate change policies and address adaptation. This panel will focus on how to create the first international law roadmap to net zero - a set of aspirational milestones for countries, companies and the public to achieve in order to facilitate success toward political and corporate net zero goals (including the building blocks of legal frameworks critical to these goals). The panel also will also focus on the role of lawyers in developing and implementing these milestones domestically to help ensure the law is in a position to achieve broader net zero goals.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Shona Frame | CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, Glasgow, Scotland; Education Officer, Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL) |
| Florencia Heredia | Allende & Brea, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Chair, Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL) |
Speakers
| Ouahida Bendjedou | Groupe ADP, Tremblay-en-France, France |
| Razman Hashim | PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Nathalie Louys | Subsea 7, Paris, France |
| Kate Southwell | Anglo American, London, England |
| Thom Wetzer | University of Oxford, Oxford, England |