Climate-Related Governance & Directors’ Duties: An Elevated Standard of Care and Heightened Disclosure Obligations
Gain a thorough understanding of the strategies you need to implement to deal with critical new developments in climate related governance and directors’ duties. Minimise risk by ensuring you’re on top of the rising standard of care for and increasingly heightened disclosure obligations. From due diligence to reporting to greenwashing risks and target setting, you’ll leave prepared to navigate whatever governance issues arise in this rapidly changing area. WEB225N24A
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
The standard of care to which directors are held on governance of climate-related issues continues to rise. At the same time, companies, their boards and audit committees are facing elevated expectations on the integration and disclosure of climate-related assumptions in financial statement accounting estimates - far beyond the narrative disclosures made under the Recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
This session will provide you with an overview of these dynamic expectations while providing practical insights to assist lawyers & in-house counsel advising on compliance.
- Due care and diligence on climate in practice
- Elevated reporting obligations: accounting standards, investor expectations and the new ISSB
- Navigating the risk of 'greenwash' in net zero and interim target setting
Presented by Sarah Barker, Partner & Head of Climate Risk Governance, MinterEllison
Presenters
Sarah Barker
Sarah Barker leads MinterEllison's international climate risk governance and sustainability team. She helps corporations, institutional investors and government agencies manage dynamic environmental, social and governance risks through a commercial lens. She has particular expertise in the climate change related exposures under corporate and securities (rather than 'environmental') laws - including directors' fiduciary duties and financial reporting/disclosure obligations. Sarah is Australia’s representative on the cross-jurisdictional Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative. She sits as an academic visitor at Oxford University’s Smith School and teaches sustainability in corporate governance for Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership.