The future risks and current effects of climate change are being felt across a wide range of activities and businesses. Current indications are that these effects will grow in coming years. As such, climate change is having an impact across many disparate areas of law. In this series, practitioners from Essex Court Chambers provide their perspectives on the impact of climate change and emerging responses by courts, tribunals and legal institutions, with a different field of specialisation being considered each week.
Series 1
Week 1
Private Enforcement of Public Good: International Arbitration Agreements as a Mechanism for Climate Change Enforcement
Authors: Graham Dunning KC and Benedict Tompkins
Week 2
Climate Change and Directors’ Duties
Authors: Edward Brown KC, John Robb and Daniel Fox
Week 3
The Paris Agreement in the English courts: what role can it play in holding the State to account?
Authors: Angeline Welsh and Jackie McArthur
Week 4
Climate change-related tort claims by foreign claimants
Authors: Naomi Hart and Owen Lloyd
Week 5
Climate Change before the European Court of Human Rights
Authors: Alison MacDonald KC, Amy Sander and Luke Tattersall
Week 6
The European convention on Human Rights in Climate Change Litigation
Authors: Hugh Mercer KC and Freddie Popplewell
Week 7
Climate Change and long-term energy contracts
Authors: David Mildon KC
Week 8
Climate Change and Insurance Law
Authors: David Scorey KC, David Walsh and Helen Morton
Week 9
Climate Change and Proceedings Before the ICJ and ITLOS
Authors: Dapo Akande, Naomi Hart and Mubarak Waseem
Series 2
Week 1
Climate Change and Inequality: Indigenous Peoples
Authors: Jane Russell, Grace Ferrier and Sarah Frame (Fox Scholar).
Week 2
The Human Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment under Custom and Treaty
Author: Naomi Hart
Week 3
Climate Change Focused Judicial Review: what must be taken into account?
Authors: Edward Brown KC and Katherine Ratcliffe
Week 4
Climate change, international investment law and arbitration
Authors: Alison Macdonald KC, Peter Webster and Mubarak Waseem
Week 5
Greenwashing: Some Thoughts on Future Claims under English Law
Authors: Richard Hoyle and Jackie McArthur
Week 6
Farmers, Flooding, and Climate Change: The Legal Risks
Authors: Jessica Wells and Daniel Fox
Climate Change Law Conference 2023
Session 1: Climate Change in commercial disputes: implications for director’s duties, insurance coverage and greenwashing claims
Author: Emmie Le Marchand – Hogan Lovells
Session 2: Using International law in climate change cases
Author: Grace Ferrier
Session 3: The Aviation Impact Accelerator and scientific and legal issues of carbon measurements / causation
Author: Olivier Swain – Hogan Lovells
Series 3
Week 1
Deep seabed mining: The critical juncture that we should all be talking about
Authors: Amy Sander and Sean Aughey
Week 2
Climate Conscious Investing and the Butler-Sloss Decision
Authors: Simon Bishop, Edward Brown KC, Patrick Kenny and Daniel Fox
Week 3
Youth-led climate lawsuits and the significance of the decision in Montana v Held
Author: Ellen Tims
Week 4
Environmental harm and the OECD NCP complaints process: the road increasingly travelled
Authors: Naomi Hart and Daniel Fox
Week 5
Seeing the wood for the trees: Developments in deforestation legislation and litigation
Authors: Naomi Hart and Grace Ferrier
