John Bray CLE - Directors' Duties and Climate Change
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Location: Courtroom 8, Samuel Way Building & Online
- Cost: $35/$25 student/conc
- More information: JBAN CLE: Directors' Duties
- Contact: Belinda MacQueen +618 8313 5800
- Email: alumni@adelaide.edu.au
The hottest corporate law topic you never knew was a corporate law topic...
We hope you can join us for our next CLE session Directors' Duties and Climate Change with speaker Sarah Barker.
Historically, climate change was thought of exclusively within the province of ‘environment & planning’ law. However, with its evolution from a purely ‘environmental, ethical’ issue to one that presents material financial risks and opportunities across the economy, the entire book of commercial law has been opened to corporate actions (and failures to act) on climate change.
Join Sarah Barker as she sets out the evolving points of intersection between climate change and commercial law – from fiduciary duty, to contract and tort.
Sarah Barker Sarah Barker is a Managing Director at Pollination Law and leads the climate and sustainability risk governance team. She was previously a Partner at the Asia-Pacific’s largest commercial law firm, MinterEllison. Sarah has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a corporate lawyer, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change governance, finance and liability risks.
She is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Climate & Nature Governance, teaches the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s non-executive directors’ programme and AICD’s Climate Governance programme. Sarah is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers (Asia Pacific) and is recognised in the Best Lawyers Guide in both the Corporate Law and Climate Change Law areas of practice.