Join us for another Climate Energy Governance & Finance (CEGF) workshop, aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations on issues at the intersection of financial and regulatory reactions to climate risks and energy transitions. 

Please note this will be an in-person workshop at The Dickson Poon School of Law, located in Somerset House East Wing.

 

Themes of the workshop will include, but are not limited to:

• Implications of physical and transition risks for financial markets and financial intermediaries
• Governance regimes of the climate transition
• Energy market regulation
• ESG investing
• Innovations in green finance and their role in the transition to net-zero
• Effectiveness of existing climate regulation

 

Jointly organised by the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance and the Climate Law and Governance Centre, the workshop will take place on Tuesday 8 November 2022 and features talks by:

• The Hon. Justice Nicola Pain, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
• Patrizia Kern, Head Marine, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Chair, Poseidon Principle for Insurance (PPMI)

 

We invite scholars in Economics, Finance, Law, and related disciplines to present work related to climate economics, regulation, and governance. Speakers will have an opportunity to engage with and receive feedback from an interdisciplinary audience. PhD students are encouraged to attend.

 

About the Speakers

 

The Hon. Justice Nicola Pain has been a judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales based in Sydney Australia since 2002. Early in her career Justice Pain was head of the Environmental Defenders Office, a public interest community legal centre in Sydney, which specialises in using environmental law to protect the environment. Justice Pain also gained extensive experience working in environmental law and policy in senior positions in NSW and Commonwealth government departments.

Justice Pain has a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Studies from the University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in International Law from the Australian National University. Justice Pain completed her doctorate on the topic of environmental rights in the Asia-Pacific region. Justice Pain has been appointed an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney Law School. She has presented numerous papers to a wide range of audiences in Australia and overseas on environmental law and related topics.

 

Patrizia Kern is an innovative leader in the use of technology and risk intelligence to drive the global marine insurance industry towards sustainability. Her career spans over 20 years, during which she has managed marine insurance teams across Europe. Since 2012, she has been leading Swiss Re’s global marine business for Corporate Solutions, with responsibility for the unit’s cargo and hull business. During this time, she helped grow Corporate Solutions’ marine business, managing a large global matrix organisation and business with a footprint across North America, Latin America, EMEA & APAC.

Patrizia works across industries, governments and academia to bring new skills and perspectives to develop innovative solutions that enable the sector to transform. She has forged partnerships with global logistics companies, automotive companies, retailers, start-ups, and brokers to enable the end-to-end transformation of the sector. She chairs the Poseidon Principles for Insurance (PPMI), the “Big-Data and Digitalization Forum” and the “Nominating Committee” of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). Patrizia is Advisory Board member of the Lloyd’s Register and of the Global Maritime Forum(GMF), working on the “Getting to Zero Coalition”.