Morgan Lewis and DIAC: Panel and Meet & Greet

Achieving greater environmental sustainability in arbitration – challenges and opportunities

Please join us to discuss sustainability in arbitration, followed by a meet and greet with representatives from DIAC, Morgan Lewis, and leading practitioners.

Around the globe, tackling climate change has now undisputedly become a political priority and an environmental necessity. This priority is reflected in the corporate world, where environmental sustainability now regularly features as a pillar for strategic growth for most multinational corporations, who are facing unprecedented pressure to react to calls for increased climate change mitigation action. As a result, a common response has been to set stringent environmental sustainability targets, with many major corporations having recently pledged to become carbon neutral. The arbitration world has not been immune to this trend. Naturally, institutions, law firms and arbitrators have been setting their own sustainability targets. Collaborative legal initiatives have sprung up from the ground to create practical legal solutions to help businesses and communities transition to net zero. In parallel, the arbitration community itself has formed its own task forces to tackle the reduction of carbon emissions arising from the work we do, from proceedings to the conferences we attend, with the Green Pledge prompting practitioners and arbitrators to consider the wider impact of their case management on the environment.