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The risks of climate change are increasingly recognized, as highlighted by the widely-cited Task Force of Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). However, there are also economic, financial and corporate risks of continued pressure on other planetary boundaries, as may be illustrated by the setting up of a Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures. The risks associated with the exploitation of people and growing inequalities in and between countries also need to be integrated. Currently, a comprehensive approach is lacking. Developing a multidisciplinary concept of risk, anchored in sustainability science as well as in finance, law and management, is therefore crucial.
About the conference
This hybrid conference brings together academics from various fields to discuss how a research-based concept of risks of sustainability can be placed at the centre of law and policy, in business and finance, to contribute to ensuring a safe and just space for all living beings on this planet. The aim is to generate holistic inclusion of the risks of unsustainability at a systemic level, and unlock the potential of new modalities of sustainability law.
Programme
Wednesday 7 December
9:00 - 9.15 Coffee/Tea & Registration
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome - Jay Cullen, Edge Hill University & University of Oslo
9:30 - 11:00 Session 1: Sustainability, Resilience and Regulation
- Patrick Keys, Colorado State University (online)
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Shruti Kashyap, Uppsala University and Beatrice Crona, Stockholm Resilience Centre (online)
- Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo & College of Europa
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee/Tea break
11:15 - 12:45 Session 2: Finance & Sustainability: Banking
- Jay Cullen, Edge Hill University & University of Oslo
- Rosa Lastra, CCLS, Queen Mary University of London
- Astrid Iversen, Inland Norway University of Applied Science & University of Oslo
12:45 - 13:40 Lunch - Viggo Hagstrøms sal
13:45 - 15:15 Session 3: Finance & Sustainability: The Financial System
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Gudrun Johnsen, Copenhagen Business School
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Katie Kedward, University College London
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Eelke Heemskerk, University of Amsterdam
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 4: Accounting as a risk mechanism
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Vera Palea, University of Torino
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Jukka Mähönen, University of Oslo & University of Helsinki
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David Monciardini, University of Exeter
17:00 Close of the first conference day
17:00 - Tapas & drinks reception in Viggo Hagstrøms sal, with a Jazz Quintet playing from 18:30 onwards. (The Jazz Quintet consist of Martin Koldem, Henning Lillehaug, Katarina Sjåfjell, Julie Martine Vestrheim and Eira Elise Øverås - all students at the Norwegian Academy of Music.)
Thursday 8 December
9:00 - 9.15 Coffee/Tea & Registration
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome - Jay Cullen, Edge Hill University & University of Oslo
9:30 - 11:00 Session 5: Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- Corporate Risk, Shareholder Liability, and the Role of Intermediaries by Christopher M. Bruner, University of Georgia (USA)
- Rebooting NEDs: Guardians of Corporate Sustainability? By Andrew Johnston, University of Warwick
- Sustainable corporate governance through sustainability auditing? On the dubious role of the new gatekeepers in the CSRD-regime by Anne-Marie Weber, University of Warsaw
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee/Tea break
11.15 - 12:45 Roundtable debate
12.45 Closing of the conference
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch, Viggo Hagstrøms sal
Registration
The conference is open to all interested. Registration is required with early registration recommended for those who would like to be present in the venue in Oslo, due to a limited number of seats.
Please register your participation by 30 November (deadline for physical participation - for Zoom participants, registration is open until 5 December noon CET).
The conference will be followed by a closed academic workshop 8-9 December 2022, which is by invitation only.