WFE Webinar
WFE Webinar: Part 1 - Evolving global trends in climate-related litigations & the changing nature of the entities involved
Date:March 19, 2025 Time:13:00-14:00 UTC
Summary: Tiffanie Chan will be providing an overview of the rising climate litigation cases globally, covering the meaning and types of climate linked litigation and the evolving legal arguments and the changing nature of entities involved. The presentation and the discussion with Tiffanie, Victoria and Chhavi aims at creating awareness of the evolving trends in climate litigation to enable stock exchanges and FMIs to make strategic and investment decisions aligned with ESG principles.
Format: There will be a presentation followed by a conversation with the moderator and discussant and Q&A from the audience.
This is an open event. Feel free to share with colleagues inside your organisation who may be interested. This event is for financial professionals only.
Chhavi Sinha is currently leading the Enterprise Risk and Cyber-security work at the WFE.
Chhavi joined the WFE from the UK’s Financial Market Law Committee (FMLC) where she identified and addressed issues of legal uncertainty in the framework of wholesale financial markets. She has previously worked at the Indian Securities Market Regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Bank of New York Mellon.
Chhavi holds a B.A.LL.B (Hons) from National Law Institute University, India and an LL.M (Masters of Law) in International Financial Law from King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law.
Victoria Powell leads WFE’s sustainability work.
Victoria has decades of experience in financial services regulation gained both in the UK regulator and as a founding member and Director at the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA). More recently she was a Director of Regulatory Policy at an Asset Manager, Ruffer LLP where she managed the implementation of numer-ous regulatory projects and contributed to Ruffer’s ESG strategy and processes.
Tiffanie Chan is a Policy Analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on climate law and governance, with an interest specifically on corporate accountability. Her current projects explore the financial impacts of climate litigation and firms’ understanding of legal risk in climate transition plans. She is also a dual-qualified lawyer in England and Wales, and Hong Kong.
