Highlights
The Allen & Gledhill Law and Sustainable Finance Distinguished Lecture “Law and Sustainable Finance – More Regulation or Better Relationships?” by Professor Megan Bowman
APCEL, EW Barker Centre for Law & Business (EWBCLB) at NUS Law, and the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), is delighted to host the Allen & Gledhill Law and Sustainable Finance Distinguished Lecture, “Law and Sustainable Finance – More Regulation or Better Relationships?” by Professor Megan Bowman on 16 October 2024 at the Westin Singapore. Over 100 academics and legal practitioners participated in this event where Prof Bowman discussed the interrelationship and interdependence between financial stability and the environment, as well as the existential threat of climate change. Professor Ernest Lim, Vice Dean (Faculty Development) at NUS Law gave the welcome address, and the Q&A session was moderated by Associate Professor Jolene Lin, Director of APCEL.
Towards Net Zero Conference: Legal Aspects of Corporate Climate Action in Asia
Join us in this first conference in Asia to bring together lawyers, judges, directors, investors regulators and academics to examine legal issues around corporate climate action. Speakers will provide insights into how companies, regulators and other stakeholders are responding to climate change, and the opportunities as well as the challenges of corporate climate action.
APCEL’s director, Jolene Lin, and Professor Jacqueline Peel seek to shed light on the emerging and accelerating climate litigation in Global South developing countries in this new book published by Oxford University Press.
About the book in 4 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6zq5fgdzE
Climate Change Related Litigation in Indonesia
APCEL Senior Research Fellow, Dr Linda Yanti Sulistiawati recently published her article, "Climate Change Litigation in Indonesia" in Nature Communications Earth and Environment Journal. This is what she says about her article: "Indonesia contributes to greenhouse gas emissions but is also vulnerable to climate change. However, the country does not have a single, overarching law explicitly addressing climate change. Climate litigation is now used in Indonesia to hold governments and corporations accountable. Here, I review the courts’ decisions for criminal and civil climate change-related cases between 2010 and 2020 and highlight trends and examples of case studies, driving factors, and impacts of climate litigation cases in Indonesia. I show that 112 climate change-related cases were brought to Indonesian courts, most of which were criminal cases concerning forestry or forest fires."
Dr Jolene Lin speaks at the CIL's Climate Change Conference: Post-GST and the Road to 2025
On 2 September 2024, Dr Jolene Lin, Director of APCEL and Associate Professor at NUS Law, spoke at a conference organised by the Centre for International Law (CIL) on climate change, titled "Post-GST and the Road to 2025".
Dr Jolene Lin presents at a SG Courts – Conversations with the Community session
On 26 July 2024, Dr Jolene Lin, Director of APCEL and Associate Professor at NUS Law, spoke at the sixth session of the SG Courts – Conversations with the Community series, titled “Advancing the Environmental Rule of Law – Roles and Responsibilities of the Community”. The event featured a keynote speech by Justice Philip Jeyaretnam, followed by presentations from Dr Jolene Lin, as well as Ms Michelle Chng from the Centre for Climate Research Singapore at the National Environment Agency and Mr Koh Min Ee from the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment.
Good Stories Movement Celebratory Event
