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If you work in the legal sector and you have an interest in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises then this podcast is for you. How do these challenges affect law firms and what can lawyers to take positive action on climate change for their firms and their clients?

Episode 13: Urgent and Existential Threat – has the ICJ Advisory Opinion changed the legal landscape?

by The Sustainable Law Podcast

Urgent and Existential Threat – has the ICJ Advisory Opinion changed the legal landscape?

Six months on from the landmark ruling by International Court of Justice which declared climate change “an urgent and existential threat” has anything changed for lawyers, law makers and businesses?

Has this opinion influenced corporate legal practice or shaped decision-making for firms or their clients? What are the due diligence obligations businesses need
to know about, and if the 1.5°C target is increasingly seen as unachievable, how relevant does it remain as a legal and policy benchmark?

In this episode Amanda Carpenter does a dive on the impact of the ruling with guests from both sides of the profession: Estelle Dehon KC, Cornerstone Barristers
and Shane Gleghorn, UK Managing Partner at Taylor Wessing.

More about our guests:

Estelle Dehon KC is a versatile leading public law barrister with a broad practice, specialising in environment and planning law, with particular expertise in climate change, net zero and energy infrastructure. The other main area of her work is data protection and access to information, in which she is again recognised as a leading barrister. She also practices in election law and human rights law and is recognised in administrative and public law. Estelle took silk in 2022 and founded the cross-disciplinary centre of excellence for climate litigation and advice, Cornerstone Climate, in 2023.

Shane Gleghorn is the UK Managing Partner and Global Co-Chair of the board at Taylor Wessing. He is recognised as one of the UK’s premier banking and fraud litigators, specialising in advising major international clients and their senior officers on large-scale litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations; representing major domestic and international commercial organisations, public companies, State entities and senior executives. He is also Chair of Legal Charter 1.5, a collaborative initiative of leading law firms which aims to shift thinking and drive transformational change to mitigate the climate crisis.