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Environment

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    Construction Law Conversations: Energy Transition projects in Asia Pacific – Wind projects (Part 2 with Kristian Maley, Marcella Stokell and Robert Tang)

    1 September 2023

    Kristian Maley, Marcella Stokell and Robert Tang discuss pressing issues and trends faced by the business world today. This is the second episode in our Construction Law Conversations series on Energy Transition projects in Asia Pacific, focusing on common risks on wind projects, and practical tips on how those risks can be mitigated.

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    Construction Law Conversations: Energy Transition projects in Asia Pacific - Wind projects (Part 1 with Kristian Maley, Marcella Stokell and Tom Capel)

    17 August 2023

    In the fifth episode of our Construction Law Conversations series, Kristian Maley, Marcella Stokell and Tom Capel discuss pressing issues and trends faced by the business world today. We focus on Energy Transition projects in Asia Pacific, particularly those related to wind projects.

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    The Climate Lawyer: Of Human Rights and Fundamental Rights (with Rich Kim, Janet Whittaker, Carla Lewis and Sam Bookman)

    30 December 2022

    In 2022, the UN adopted a resolution declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. Clifford Chance and the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice supported the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment in his work on this. In this seventh and final episode of the Clifford Chance podcast series "The Climate Lawyer", host Richard Kim (counsel, Düsseldorf) is joined by Janet Whittaker (senior counsel, DC), Carla Lewis (senior associate, London) and Sam Bookman from the Vance Center.

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    The Climate Lawyer: Is ESG Awash with Greenwashing? (with Rich Kim, David Adams and Karina Bashir)

    20 July 2022

    Love it or hate it, ESG remains a hot topic. Regulators, NGOs, and private litigants worldwide are increasingly focused on how companies define ESG and are using standard and asymmetric strategies to combat the practice of "greenwashing". In the sixth episode of the Clifford Chance Podcast series 'The Climate Lawyer', host Richard Kim (counsel, Düsseldorf) is joined by David Adams (counsel, DC) and Karina Bashir (associate, DC) to break down recent regulatory, enforcement, and litigation developments in this area, and to discuss how companies committed to ESG can proactively address the escalating litigation risk.

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    The Climate Lawyer: What Can In-House Counsel Do? (with Rich Kim & Adam Woodhall)

    5 July 2022

    There's a new hope in the battle against climate change from somewhere you might not expect. In-house counsel are stepping up to become agents for change in their organization. In this fifth episode of the Clifford Chance podcast series 'The Climate Lawyer', host Richard Kim (counsel, Düsseldorf) is joined by Adam Woodhall, founder and CEO of Lawyers for Net Zero, a non-profit that helps guide in-house counsel on their climate journeys.

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    The Climate Lawyer: Climate Meets Venture Capital (with Rich Kim & Mona Alsubaei)

    10 May 2022

    There's no path to net zero without innovation, and nobody knows innovation like venture capital. What does it mean to be a climate VC investor? Find out in the fourth episode of The Clifford Chance Podcast series, 'The Climate Lawyer', where host Richard Kim (counsel, Düsseldorf) is joined by Mona Alsubaei, a member of the investment team at Union Square Ventures (USV) and specialist in climate tech investing.

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    The Climate Lawyer: Tech – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (with Rich Kim, Jamie Andrew and Laura de Arroyo Garcia)

    1 March 2022

    At the intersection of tech and climate: This is where the third episode of Clifford Chance's podcast series, The Climate Lawyer, comes in. Host Rich Kim (Counsel, Düsseldorf) is joined by senior associate Jamie Andrew and trainee solicitor Laura de Arroyo Garcia (both London) to explore tech trends impacting climate change.

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    The Climate Lawyer: Peeling the Climate Onion (with Rich Kim, Michelle Williams and Jeroen Ouwehand)

    8 December 2021

    Ready to bite into climate change? It's a hard topic with a lot of layers. For the second episode of our new podcast series, The Climate Lawyer, host Rich Kim (Counsel, Düsseldorf) is joined by Jeroen Ouwehand (Global Senior Partner) and Michelle Williams (Partner, Washington, DC) for an ambitious break-down of these layers and how to understand them.

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    The Climate Lawyer: COP26 Up Close and Personal (with Rich Kim, Clare Burgess and David Alfrey)

    22 November 2021

    You've seen the news on COP26, but not like this. For the first episode of our new podcast series, The Climate Lawyer, host Rich Kim (Counsel, Dusseldorf) is joined by Clare Burgess (Partner, London) and David Alfrey (Lawyer, London) for a lively and insightful discussion of the conference and its major takeaways.

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Social

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    Breaking New Ground: Inclusion targets - why do they matter? (with Connie Heng, Tiernan Brady and Angela Chan)

    3 May 2022

    In the second episode of our Breaking New Ground series, Clifford Chance's Global Director of Inclusion Tiernan Brady welcomes our Regional Managing Partner for Asia Pacific Connie Heng, and partner in our Hong Kong Capital Markets Group Angela Chan. Together, they explore the role of inclusion targets and how they help us dismantle some of the barriers that prevent us from being as inclusive as we would like to be.

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    Breaking New Ground: How do we identify bias? (with Emma Folds and Dr Arin Reeves)

    30 March 2022

    Welcome to our podcast series, 'Breaking New Ground'. Our theme for International Women's Day this year was #BreakTheBias, so in this series, we are focusing on some of the many ways we are working to break the bias as a firm. In this episode, partner Emma Folds welcomes Dr Arin Reeves, President and Managing Director at Nextions, to explore some of the key ways in which we've been working together to dismantle some of the barriers that may prevent our firm – and indeed other organisations – from being as inclusive as we would like to be.

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    Dicta: Art and the future of activism (with Celeste Koeleveld and Zuleka Henderson)

    18 January 2022

    Clifford Chance recently partnered with the International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD) on the immersive virtual Dicta exhibit, which combines poetry, law and art to inspire activism in pursuit of social justice. Partner Celeste Koeleveld caught up with ICAAD advisor Zuleka Henderson to discuss the impact of the Dicta series and "Artivism" as a means of driving social justice. Zuleka is a licensed social worker, a cultural healing and anti-racism consultant, and the Founding Director of the Center for Black WellBeing with graymatters Medical Practice, which serves as a wellness destination that houses several healing lanes specifically designed for Black people.

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    What does it mean to be a Responsible Business today? (with Jeroen Ouwehand and David Rodin)

    23 December 2021

    Last month, hot off the heels of COP26, Global Senior Partner Jeroen Ouwehand caught up with founder of Principia Advisory David Rodin to discuss Clifford Chance's journey this year, establishing our values-based Code of Conduct and core principles of our culture, as well as the Business Ethics Report we published together recently which looks at a 'new era' of ethics in business.

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    How not to succumb to Confirmation Bias with Professor Alex Edmans (with Kate Gibbons)

    15 February 2019

    Partner Kate Gibbons explores how to distinguish between reliable and dubious evidence with acclaimed TED speaker and professor of finance at the London Business School, Alex Edmans.

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Governance

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    Supply chain due diligence – what’s happening in France and Germany? (with Angela McEwan, Thomas Voland and Charles-Henri Boeringer)

    24 November 2021

    Momentum behind the implementation of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence continues to grow. In this podcast, partner Angela McEwan talks to partners Charles-Henri Boeringer and Thomas Voland about supply chain due diligence in France and Germany. Together, they explore how existing national rules might fit with the forthcoming proposal for an EU directive and whether the French and German regimes set a precedent.

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    Boardroom Risk: Political volatility the new norm (with Matthew Newick and Peter Harris)

    3 February 2020

    Matthew Newick, Global Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution, speaks to Peter Harris, Counsel, about how political volatility is now business as usual, and how political risk looks set to rise on the corporate agenda in the near future.

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