Climate Change

Clyde & Co specialists explore how businesses are adapting to challenges and embracing opportunities to become climate-resilient.

Our Climate Change Episodes

Climate change presents unprecedented risks and opportunities to all sectors. In this channel, join lawyers specialised in Climate Risk and Resilience as they discuss how businesses are adapting to challenges and embracing opportunities to become climate-resilient.

12 May 2022

A Climate for Change | Changing stripes: Adapting to biodiversity risk

In this episode, Clyde & Co Associate and host Jane O'Reilly is joined by Legal Director Wynne Lawrence of Clyde & Co and Nathanial Matthews, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Resilience Partnership, to discuss the risks posed to the natural world, specifically biodiversity, and the steps being taken to protect and preserve natural resources and ecological systems upon which all life on Earth depends. 

07 April 2022

A Climate for Change | Tech takes on Climate Change

Host Jane O’Reilly is joined by Clyde & Co partner Lee Bacon from the Energy, Marine and Natural Resources group and Josh Graham, Chief Executive Officer of EHAB, a company that utilises innovative technology to minimise and mitigate weather risk, in response to the evolving challenge of climate change.

27 January 2022

A Climate for Change | Lighting the way: The Energy Sector of the Future

In this episode, Jane O'Reilly is joined by Clyde & Co Partner Mark Walsh and Associate Partner at The Governance Group Jason Stanley to discuss the importance of decarbonising the energy sector and the challenges and opportunities it brings.

09 December 2021

A Climate for Change | Emissions Trading: Commoditising Net Zero Targets

Host Jane O'Reilly is joined by Clyde & Co Partners Clare Hatcher and Rebecca Armstrong, and Clyde & Co's Head of Banking and Finance in Greater China, Fei Kwok for the Trade & Commodities episode of  A Climate for Change.

18 November 2021

A Climate for Change | Built to Last - Constructing Resilience

In this episode, Jane O’Reilly is joined by Clyde & Co Legal Director Chris Leadbetter, Lara Young, Group Carbon Manager at Costain, and James Dean, CEO and Co-Founder of Sensat to discuss decarbonisation in the construction sector.

17 November 2021

COP26 Briefing | Post-summit analysis: How successful has COP26 been in stepping up the fight again

After a whirlwind two weeks of COP26, where does the world stand in its fight against climate change? Some regard it as a missed opportunity to save the planet, but the event can be seen as a success on several key fronts. For Nigel Brook, Partner at Clyde & Co, it has been “a mixed bag.”

08 November 2021

COP26 Briefing | Spotlight on finance at COP26 – Perspectives on the key developments

Finance was a hotly anticipated topic at COP26, with action urgently needed to mobilise $billions to decarbonise economies, invest in green technologies and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Here we discuss some of the key developments.

02 November 2021

COP26 Briefing | Ratcheting up climate change ambitions: What can we expect from COP26?

The COP26 climate summit underway this week is the most significant meeting of world leaders and policymakers to date. It’s critically important because, six years on from the Paris Agreement, ambitions around tackling climate change now need to be ratcheted up.

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Franco Acchiardo
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Neil Beresford
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Jonathan Brown
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Laura Cooke
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