**This seminar has been postponed, we will provide a new date as soon as possible – register on the link provided to be updated with the new date in due course**
Seminar synopsis:
A clear imperative in addressing the climate crisis is to turn finance promises into action, which implicates not only public finance but also the private sector. That in turn requires examination of legal and regulatory interventions in capital markets that can realign incentives for financial optimisation to achieve public interest objectives. In moving between public international law, domestic financial regulation, and the normative influence of emerging litigation and institutional coordination, this seminar seeks out the hiding places of justice and accountability in a financial system struggling to tackle one of the greatest challenges of our time.
About the speaker:
Professor Megan Bowman is a full Professor of Law and founding Director of the King’s Centre for Climate Law & Governance. She also leads the King’s/United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) partnership on Legal Readiness for Climate Finance and consults to governments and the private sector on implementing the Paris Agreement and transitioning to net zero.
Professor Bowman’s expertise focuses on empirical and transnational analyses of financial regulation and company law in the context of climate change and planetary sustainability. Her award-winning research has been cited in scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2022), the UN High-Level Climate Champions’ Pivot Point regulatory report (2022) and featured in the eco-arts digital display The Quiet Enchanting on The Strand in London (2023). Her first book Banking on Climate Change: How Finance Actors and Transnational Regulatory Regimes are Responding (Kluwer 2015) has been lauded as ground-breaking and was launched by then Hon. Mr. Justice William Blair of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. She has been Principal Investigator on several high impact research grants including a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship on climate-related financial and corporate regulation in Europe and the UK (2020-2022); and her current work explores justice imperatives in the context of systems change and corporate accountability as illustrated by a King’s Sustainability Seed Grant on youth-led climate litigation (2023-2024).
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