This Dialogue will explore how the law can assist in reducing the impact of climate change. It will:
- Examine the UK framework legislation as a model for success, its shortcomings and how might it be improved.
- Explore other options to ensure that Governments and other institutions take appropriate measures to tackle climate change, including through:
– actions against Governments and corporations by civil society groups o contractual terms
– imposing carbon border taxation
Chair:
Howard Covington
Chair of the Board of Trustees, The Alan Turing Institute; Chair of the Board of Trustees, ClientEarth
Introduction:
Professor James Dallas
Executive Director of the Energy Law Institute, CCLS, Queen Mary, University of London
Speakers:
Sir William Blair QC
Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, CCLS; former High Court Judge, England and Wales and first President of the Board of Appeal, European Supervisory Authorities
Lord David Howell
Chairman of Crystol Energy’s Advisory Board; first Secretary of State for Energy for the UK government and former President of the UK Energy Industries Council
Lord Adair Turner
Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission; former Chair of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change