The University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) together with the European Banking Institute (EBI) are pleased to invite you to their joint conference on:

“Joining the Dots in Climate Accountability and Risk: States, Companies, Markets”

The conference will bring together leading academics, judges, regulators, practitioners and policymakers to engage in a forward-looking discussion.

Climate accountability and climate risks are usually approached from three perspectives: the obligations of States; the duties of companies; and the identification, disclosure and supervision of risk in financial markets. On top of this, each perspective is often adopted by different scholarly and professional communities, with distinct legal vocabularies and analytical methods.

This does not help understand the problem, let alone solve it. These different perspectives form part of an interconnected legal and economic process. Developments at one level may shape arguments, decisions and risk assessments at the others. Their translation, however, is neither automatic nor uncontested: causation, attribution, responsibility and exposure are understood differently in the law of State responsibility, in domestic private and corporate law and in financial risk assessment, and these differences are not merely technical.

The conference examines the points at which the three meet. It asks how judgments, legal duties, disclosures, transition plans and climate-related exposures move between States, companies and markets, and how accountability is reinforced, transformed, diluted or redirected in that process.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Montserrat Abad, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• José Luis Aragón Cardiel, Permanent Court of Arbitration
• Pedro Aránguez-Díaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & EBI
• David Brinkman, European Central Bank
• Iris Chiu, University College London
• Pierre-Henri Conac, University of Luxembourg & EBI
• Asier Garrido Muñoz, The Hague University of Applied Sciences
• Anneloes Kuiper, Utrecht University
• Iain Macneil, University of Glasgow
• Milena Mitrović, University of Luxembourg & EBI
• David Ramos Muñoz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & EBI
• Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi, Constitutional Court of Italy & EBI
• Michele Siri, University of Genoa & EBI

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Finalised conference programme and registration details to follow.