3 episodes
The Sustainable Law Podcast Beth PALMER
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If you work in the legal sector and you are interested in the climate then the Sustainable Law Podcast is for you. Through thoughtful conversations with industry leaders, academics, activists, policy makers, as well as those working within the sector, we seek to inform, equip and empower listeners to address climate change - not only exploring how the climate and nature crises are affecting the legal sector as a whole, but asking how listeners can have an impact both on a personal level and through their practice.
The Sustainable Law Podcast is brought to you by the LSA, the only not-for-profit sustainability network run by law firms for law firms.
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The Burning Question - Should Law Firms Act for Fossil Fuels?
Leading UK and international law firms continue to earn millions from fossil fuel related transactions. Meanwhile law students are calling for action– will the student spotlight cause firms to think again or is it hopelessly naive to think anything will change? Do firms care? Episode 3 of the Sustainable Law Podcast explores the tricky issue of law firms who work with the fossil fuel industry and how that is affecting student recruitment and retention. We spoke to Sophia Adams Bhatti, Head of Purpose and Impact at global law firm Simmons and Simmons and Haley Czarnek, National Director of Law Students for Climate Accountability.
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Greenwashing - A Dirty Business
Banks that ‘care about the climate’ but finance fossil fuel, fashion houses and supermarkets who shout about sustainability while the food and plastic waste piles up. Are we drowning in a tidal wave of greenwashing and does it matter? We talked to two experts to help us navigate the murky waters of greenwashing. Tom Parsons is Director of Sales and Origination at Good Energy and George Harding Rolls, Director of Policy & Advocacy for Eco-Age.
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COP28 - A Young Lawyers Perspective
The first episode of the Sustainable Law Podcast explores what it is like to be facing twinned climate and nature crises as a young corporate lawyer. What did it feel like to be a young professional at COP28? Was it a game changer? Or a fudge hijacked by fossil fuels?
COP28 attracted over 97,000 people, including nearly 2,500 fossil-fuel lobbyists who out-numbered nearly all individual country delegations. Can meaningful change be accomplished in such an environment or is the COP process broken? Is COP finally taking the youth voice seriously? Do young people need to be more radical?
With Sarah Hill Smith – Associate, Clyde & Co specialising in complex international arbitration and commercial litigation, with a strong interest in climate law and Charlie Bevis – Trainee Solicitor at Norton Rose Fulbright, G20 (Youth) UK Head Delegate & Climate Delegate, COP26 ’27 ’28 Delegate, Stop Ecocide UK Ambassador.
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