Decarbonisation In a Changing World
Decarbonisation In a Changing World: International Trade, Green Steel, Green Energy and Regulatory Risk Mitigation
Date and time
Location
HFW
123 St Georges Terrace Brookfield Place – Tower 2 Conference Centre – Room 1 Perth, WA 6000 AustraliaAgenda
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM
Introduction to the Conference
Paul D Evans
Partner
HFW
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
The Shifting Paradigm of International Collaboration and Governance
Prof. Jürgen Brohmer
School of Law and Criminology
Murdoch University
2:50 PM - 3:25 PM
International Trade - The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism of the EU
Prof. Achin Roman
Brunswick European Law School
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
3:25 PM - 4:00 PM
The Contribution of Modern Free Trade Agreements to Global Climate Protection
Leonie Zappel
Brunswick European Law School
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Afternoon Tea
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of the Energy Transition
Jo Garland
Partner
HFW
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Decarbonising Steel, a Key to Net Zero
Mike Nolan
Executive Leader for Energy and Resources
GHD
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Drinks, Canapés and Networking at Sunset
HFW
About this event
- Event lasts 5 hours
Over recent decades the world has experienced enormous change in trade between nations, and that change continues. After a period of decades characterised by globalisation, with the formation of multinational trading blocs, the negotiation of inter-state, and inter-bloc trading agreements characterised by reductions to tariff and nontariff trade barriers. Those changes continue, but with new dimensions.
It is trite that we live in a world characterised by:
• increasing multipolar competition, between nations and trading blocs; and
• climate change, driving the need for decarbonisation.
Nations and trading blocs grapple with a new balance between the benefits of freer trade, and the imperatives of decarbonisation, with structural economic consequences that can change the comparative advantages of nations and blocs, upon which trading agreements were negotiated. The integers of the equations that support those agreements are in flux.
And in that flux, the possibility of the recreation of tariff and nontariff trade barriers under the guise of the promotion of decarbonisation, as well as near shoring and supply chain resilience exists.
In this conference, distinguished Australian and European academic speakers will consider the framework legal and regulatory issues which exist and are developing, supported by HFW and engineering practitioners to discuss how these issues play out in day-to-day commerce.
CPD POINTS
This conference carries 3 CPD points in the area of substantive law for those attending the whole conference. Remember that you need one complete hour of attendance for each CPD point.
CONTACT
Natalie Warrick, HFW Australia
natalie.warrick@hfw.com