Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing'
9 May 2025, 9.45 AM - 9 May 2025, 5.00 PM
Various speakers
The Lady Hale Moot Court, 8 - 10 Berkeley Square, BS8 1HH
The Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability invites you to the Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing' (Programme Below).
PROGRAMME
09:00-09:45 Registration
09:45-10:00 Welcome – Sanja Bogojević and Elen Stokes
10:00-11:30 Panel 1: Academia and Practice (Chair: Margherita Pieraccini)
· ‘Universities’ Sustainability Action and the Risk of Greenwashing’, Jacqueline Peel (University of Melbourne)
· ‘Higher Education(s), the Green Agenda & a Complex March to Decarbonisation: An Uneven and Unfinished Story’, Duncan French (University of Lincoln)
· ‘Holding Things In Tension?: Law Firms, “Greenwashing”, and Professional Integrity’, Steven Vaughan (Monash University)
· ‘Law Firms and Green Pledges’, Jeff Twentyman (Director of Green Finance Institute; Honorary Professor, UCL; former Chair of Sustainability, Slaughter and May)
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:00 Panel 2: Courts and Litigants (Chair: Sanja Bogojević)
· ‘Net-Zero and Gummy-Bears’, Martje Koppen (University of Oxford)
· ‘Of Hens Teeth and Effective Climate Litigation: The Case of Anti-Greenwash Actions’, Navraj Singh (University of Edinburgh)
· ‘Climate Litigation, Equality, and Unfulfilled Promises’, Alice Venn (University of Bristol)
13:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Panel 3: Governance Frameworks (Chair: Sahar Shah)
· ‘Governance Frameworks for Greenwashing’, Thiago Chagas (Carbon Pricing Unit)
· ‘Is ESG Investing Part of the Greenwashing Problem?’, Charlotte Villers (University of Bristol)
· ‘The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Should Inspire an International Treaty’, Jonas Ebbesson (Stockholm University)
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 Panel 4: Regulatory Contexts (Chair: Elen Stokes)
· ‘Investigating Greenwashing in the Landscape of Global Value Chains’, Luca Tenreira (EUI)
· ‘Greenwashing and Marginalised Communities: A Study of Emissions Reduction Alberta’, Temitope Onifade (University of Bristol)
· ‘Regulation of Climate-related Greenwashing in India’, Lovleen Bhullar (University of Cambridge)
· ‘Greenwashing in the Law? The Implications of Chilean Law 21.100 Banning Plastic Bags’, Javiera Estenssoro Soriano (University of Bristol)
16:45-17:00 Announcement: Richard Macrory Prize
17:00-18:00 Reception
Please register on Eventbrite here. If you have any dietary, physical or other needs, please let us know. We look forward to enriching the event with adaptations to accommodate everyone.
Contact information
For more information, please contact law-exec@bristol.ac.uk
