The first in a five-part series, this session provides an introduction and overview of key aspects of how climate change and associated risks – both physical and transitional – are already intersecting with key areas of New Zealand law.
This session is not a laundry-list of developments, but a roadmap of how those developments, which will be discussed in more detail through
the series, are influencing the legal landscape.
Amongst other matters, we outline the climate science, international climate change law, NZ’s Zero Carbon regime, legal developments affecting
NZ businesses, and how the risks posed by climate change are likely to play into legal duties of governmental and private actors.
This first session provides an overview for those wanting to learn more about climate change and its implications for lawyers and their clients.
The four subject-specific sessions will cover:
In this second session of the five-part series, the presenters look at how climate change is affecting property investment decisions, the management of real estate assets and how tenant needs are changing.
This is followed by an analysis of the recent changes to the Resource Management Act, which will now allow the effects on climate change to be
taken into account in land development, consenting and planning decisions.
The property and resource management strains are woven together by assessing how climate change, at a practical level, is affecting property values
and how the Resource Management Act has to date grappled with matters such as sea level rise.
Property and Resource Management lawyers as well as general practitioners practising in these areas plus lawyers involved in corporate investment. Planners might also find this session useful.
With an eye on where climate change or emissions trading scheme (ETS) issues might arise, or where sustainable finance can play a role, the third session of the five-part Climate Change series will focus on what corporate & commercial lawyers, and banking & finance lawyers need to know about carbon law matters.
The presenters provide an overview of the ETS, and provide insights around which types of clients may be affected by the ETS and wider carbon issues, and how they may be impacted.
The session also includes consideration of infrastructure and the role of sustainable finance in helping to capitalise the transition towards a net zero position. Relatable case studies assist viewers to recognise where climate change-related input is required.
Those who practise in corporate and commercial and banking and finance law, including general practitioners, in-house counsel and those in central and local government.
This fourth session provides an overview of trends and insights in domestic and international climate change dispute resolution.
Presenters Jenny Cooper SC, Daniel Kalderimis and Nicola Swan cover international and domestic climate change-related litigation and arbitration brought to date against governments and corporate entities, including claims in judicial review, tort, corporate and commercial law, and Treaty-based and indigenous rights; regulatory actions and investigations regarding climate change; and climate change-related commercial and investor-state arbitration.
Gain an overview of trends and insights in domestic and international climate change dispute resolution, in relation to:
Corporate lawyers and in-house counsel managing risk, public law and human rights specialists, as well as dispute resolution lawyers.
This final session in the series highlights how pervasive the impact of climate change can be on business, and non-business, decision-making.
It will be of interest to all lawyers who wish to understand the impact on governance responsibilities for their clients (and themselves).
This On Demand session will be of interest to all lawyers who wish to understand the impact on governance responsibilities for their clients (and themselves).
