Greenwashing
The 2025 Journal of Environmental Law Event
Friday 9th May 2025, Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability,
University of Bristol Law School
Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square
PROGRAMME
09:00-09:45 Registration
09:45-10:00 Welcome – Sanja Bogojević and Elen Stokes
10:00-11:30 Panel 1: Academia and Practice (Chair: Margherita Pieraccini)
· ‘Universities’ Sustainability Action and the Risk of Greenwashing’, Jacqueline Peel (University of Melbourne)
· ‘Higher Education(s), the Green Agenda & a Complex March to Decarbonisation: An Uneven and Unfinished Story’, Duncan French (University of Lincoln)
· ‘Holding Things In Tension?: Law Firms, “Greenwashing”, and Professional Integrity’, Steven Vaughan (Monash University)
· ‘Law Firms and Green Pledges’, Jeff Twentyman (Director of Green Finance Institute; Honorary Professor, UCL; former Chair of Sustainability, Slaughter and May)
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-13:00 Panel 2: Courts and Litigants (Chair: Sanja Bogojević)
· ‘Net-Zero and Gummy-Bears’, Martje Koppen (University of Oxford)
· ‘Of Hens Teeth and Effective Climate Litigation: The Case of Anti-Greenwash Actions’, Navraj Singh (University of Edinburgh)
· ‘Climate Litigation, Equality, and Unfulfilled Promises’, Alice Venn (University of Bristol)
13:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Panel 3: Governance Frameworks (Chair: Sahar Shah)
· ‘Governance Frameworks for Greenwashing’, Thiago Chagas (Carbon Pricing Unit)
· ‘The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Should Inspire an International Treaty’, Jonas Ebbesson (Stockholm University)
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 Panel 4: Regulatory Contexts (Chair: Elen Stokes)
· ‘Investigating Greenwashing in the Landscape of Global Value Chains’, Luca Tenreira (EUI)
· ‘Greenwashing and Marginalised Communities: A Study of Emissions Reduction Alberta’, Temitope Onifade (University of Bristol)
· ‘Regulation of Climate-related Greenwashing in India’, Lovleen Bhullar (University of Cambridge)
· ‘Greenwashing in the Law? The Implications of Chilean Law 21.100 Banning Plastic Bags’, Javiera Estenssoro Soriano (University of Bristol)
16:45-17:00 Announcement: Richard Macrory Prize
17:00-18:00 Reception
If you have any dietary, physical or other needs, please let us know. We look forward to enriching the event with adaptations to accommodate everyone.
