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DESCRIPTION:BLP / SGI-OSF Seminars in Business & Society 2022-2023 \n\nWith
  Cynthia A. Williams - Professor of Law | Indiana University\, Maurer Scho
 ol of Law \n\nAbstract\n\nIn 2021\, as part of the COP 26 climate negotiat
 ions in Glasgow\, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero\, GFANZ\, wa
 s announced.  This Alliance of banks\, asset managers\, and insurance comp
 anies\, with more than $130 trillion of assets under management today\, wa
 s based on a pledge by the participating companies to work towards net-zer
 o status in their businesses by 2050 or sooner.  By today\, the Alliance i
 s in disarray\, with founding member banks and asset managers in both the 
 United States and Canada being targeted from the right for their “woke cap
 italism\,” and from the left for the disinformation between pledges in GFA
 NZ versus their continued funding of new oil and gas exploration and devel
 opment.  In the workshop\, Prof. Williams will explore the implications of
  these developments for the potential of soft law standards to have a sign
 ificant role in emissions reductions.  After all\, the global disclosure i
 nitiative\, the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD)\
 , has been a great success\, and is being incorporated into “hard law” in 
 several jurisdictions.  Is there a difference between what is reasonable t
 o expect from private governance of disclosure versus private governance o
 f substantive standards? \n\nBio\n\nProf. Cynthia Williams is the former O
 sler Chair in Business Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and is currently a P
 rofessor of Law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law and Professor
  of U.S. and Securities Law at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.  
 She is a leading academic promoting greater required disclosure of social 
 and environmental data in the U.S.\, and in Canada  was a co-founder and p
 rincipal investigator for the Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI)\, which
  investigates the obligations of board members and pension fund trustees t
 o incorporate climate change into their strategies\, oversight\, and discl
 osure.  \n\n \n
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LOCATION:New Chancellor Day Hall (3644 Peel)\, Room 312
SUMMARY:The Culture Wars Jump the Tracks: Private Climate Governance\, “Net
  Zero” Prospects\, and Politics  
URL:/law/channels/event/culture-wars-jump-tracks-priva
 te-climate-governance-net-zero-prospects-and-politics-346351
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